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1 online resource (1 audio file (540 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Christine Lakin. |
| Summary |
Brooke King has been asked over and over what it's like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The answers people seek lie in the graphic details of war-the sex, death, violence, and reality of it all as she experienced it. In her riveting memoir War Flower, King breaks her silence and reveals the truth about her experience as a soldier in Iraq. Find out what happens when the sex turns into secret affairs, the violence is turned up to eleven, and how King's feelings for a country she knew nothing about as a nineteen-year-old become more disturbing to her as a thirty-year-old mother writing it all down before her memories fade into oblivion. The story of a girl who went to war and returned home a woman, War Flower gathers the enduring remembrances of a soldier coming to grips with post-traumatic stress disorder. As King recalls her time in Iraq, she reflects on what violence does to a woman and how the psychic wounds of combat are unwittingly passed down from mother to children. War Flower is ultimately a profound meditation on what it means to have been a woman in a war zone and an unsettling expose on war and its lingering aftershocks. For veterans such as King, the toughest lesson of service is that in the mind, some wars never end-even after you come home. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
King, Brooke.
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United States. Army -- Women -- Biography.
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United States. Army -- Women -- Social conditions.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- United States -- Biography.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns.
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Women soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
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Pregnant women -- United States -- Biography.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
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Women in combat -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Lakin, Christine, 1979- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
My life after Iraq |
| ISBN |
9781982631642 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982631643 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12308900 |
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