Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
✍ Scribed by Williams, Kayla
- Book ID
- 109831143
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 271 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780393239362
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives.Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave, was wounded by a roadside bomb that sent shrapnel through his brain. Kayla waited anxiously for news and, on returning home, sought out Brian. The two began a tentative romance and later married, but neither anticipated the consequences of Brian's injury on their lives. Lacking essential support for returning veterans from the military and the VA, Kayla and Brian suffered through posttraumatic stress amplified by his violent mood swings, her struggles to reintegrate into a country still oblivious to women veterans, and what seemed the callous, consumerist indifference of civilian society at large.
Kayla persevered. So did Brian. They fought for their marriage, drawing on remarkable...
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