Teresa Fazio

Fidelis (eBook, PDF)

A Memoir

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 1998 Teresa Fazio signed up for the Marine Corps' ROTC program to pay her way through MIT. After the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, leading to the War on Terror, she graduated with a physics degree into a very different world, owing the Marines four years of active duty. At twenty-three years old and five foot one, Fazio was the youngest and smallest officer in her battalion; the combined effect of her short hair, glasses, and baggy camo was less Hurt Locker than Harry Potter Goes to War. She cut an incongruous figure commanding more experienced troops in an active war zone, where vulnerability was not only taboo but potentially lethal. In this coming-of-age story set in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Fazio struggles with her past, her sense of authority, and her womanhood. Anger stifles her fear and uncertainty. A forbidden affair placates her need for love and security. But emptiness, guilt, and nightmares plague Fazio through her deployment-and follow her back home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640124028
• Artikelnr.: 72456697

Autorenporträt

Teresa Fazio was a Marine Corps communications officer for four years, deploying once to Iraq. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, and the Nation as well as in the anthologies Retire the Colors: Veterans and Civilians on Iraq and Afghanistan; The Road Ahead: Fiction from the Forever War; and It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. Fazio holds a BS in physics from MIT, a PhD in materials science from Columbia University, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Prologue
1. Packing for War
2. Convoy
3. Groundhog Day
4. Hometown Throwdown
5. Training
6. Night Watch
7. Intrigue
8. Past and Future
9. Beatings Will Continue until Morale Improves
10. Everything Goes to Shit
11. Laying Cable
12. Light My Fire
13. American Girl
14. Falling
15. Semper Fidelis?
16. Worst Christmas Ever
17. Wintry Mix
18. Good-bye?
19. Paddling like a Duck
20. Gone to Carolina
21. A Little Trouble in the Big Apple
22. Get By with a Little Help
23. Crash
24. No One Left Behind
25. Reveille
Epilogue
Source Acknowledgments