It was a privilege to get an advance readers edition of this book and, though I didn’t end up reading it ahead of its publication date, I am so glad I read it now. Too many of my friends are military wives these days, and I have a much more profound sense of what that means. This book and life during this war informed each other. I am not a miluim wife, and there is a tremendous amount of privilege in that fact. It was heartbreaking and important for me to read about some of Simone’s internal processing and, especially, about the way the wives held each other up. 


Shift Happens - a memoir of a woman in unexpected circumstances in a world somewhat dominated by men, finding her community and making her way