Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid. But while she renders her own history with insight, the other wives are drawn with less nuance.

Gorrindo’s memoir is a gorgeously rendered peek behind the curtain of military life, as she recounts reckoning with her husband’s participation in violence—and examining why his job exists at all..

A fearless, engaging, and important memoir about how one person’s decision to serve in the military affects their entire family..

Powerfully candid.

An intimate memoir of sacrifice and devotion..