Pretty Much True - Softcover

Tsetsi, Kristen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057842813X ISBN 13: 9780578428130

Publisher: Penxere Press, 2019

Synopsis

When Jake deploys in 2003 to fly Apache helicopters in Iraq, Mia, a former adjunct English professor and Jake's fiance, passes the time working as a cab driver with an ear constantly on the news for updates from talking TV heads hungry for soldier tragedies (great for ratings!). Numbed by the fear that she'll never see Jake alive again, Mia does her best to limit her encounters with others affected by the war: her overbearing future mother in-law; an alcoholic, charismatic Vietnam veteran who frequently requests Mia as his driver; a pragmatic but secretive longtime Army wife; and a soldier who found a way to stay home. Pretty Much True is the war story that's seldom told -- the loss and love in every hour of deployment, and a painfully intimate portrait of lives spent waiting in the spaces between.

 

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About the Author

Kristen Tsetsi has been an adjunct English professor, an instructor of expository-, play-, and screenwriting, a town news reporter/feature writer/columnist for a daily newspaper, and editor of the literary journal American Fiction (New Rivers Press). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead.Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her debut novel Pretty Much True is among the works studied in Owen W. Gilman, Jr.'s textbook The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.Kristen contributes regularly to the writers' and publishers' resource website JaneFriedman.com with a series of interviews with writers and others in the publishing industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penxere Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057842813X
• ISBN 13: 9780578428130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260