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War Changes Everyone and Everything
A book review of Kristin Hannah’s Home Front.
Kristin Hannah’s novel Home Front won’t disappoint. I couldn’t put it down once I started.
In it, we meet a couple whose marriage is in serious trouble. Jolene found a fresh start in Michael when her parents died when she was in high school. Together, they started a family, and twelve years later, they are dealing with the pressures of everyday life. In fact, their marriage may be over as Michael says the unthinkable to her before she leaves.
Jolene, a member of the National Guard, is deployed, and her husband, defense attorney Michael, is left at home. Unused to taking care of their girls, he struggles to keep things together as Jolene gets sent to the front lines of the war.
Jolene struggles to leave her girls without Michael’s support, and she tries to keep her cheerful attitude by painting a rose-colored version of what she sees on a daily basis. Her family has no idea what is really going on, and what it is doing to her.
When Jolene comes home from war completely changed, her family must find a way to reconnect and move on. Jolene and Michael have to decide if their marriage and family are worth fighting for. Readers will want to see how the family handles Jolene’s deployment and her return.
