No Man's War

A “blunt, bold debut memoir” of women’s lives on an army base and the intimate hardships of war and deployment on this community ( Kirkus ) Raised as an army brat, Angie Ricketts though she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin – then an Infantry Lieutenant – on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since then, Darrin, now a Colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four of those tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts has lived every one of those deployments intimately