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Book group fiction at its best, Blue Stars explores the bonds of family and the limits of fidelity, to tell the story of life on the home front in the twenty-first century. Emily Gray Tedrowe has written an extraordinary novel about ordinary people, a graceful and gritty portrayal of what its like for the women whose husbands and sons are deployed in Iraq. Blue Stars brings to life the realities of the modern day home front: how to get through the daily challenges of motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress and uncertainty of war, when everything can change in an instant. It tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern literature professor, who is drawn into the war when her legal ward Michael enlists as a Marine; and of Lacey, a proud Army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed. Ellen and Lacey cope with the fear and stress of a loved one at war while trying to get by in a society that often ignores or misunderstands what war means to women today. When Michael and Eddie are injured in Iraq, Ellen and Laceys lives become intertwined in Walter Reed Army Hospital, where each woman must live while caring for h

Who reads Blue Stars : a Novel?

Author

Emily Gray Tedrowe [Tedrowe, Emily Gray]

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466854581

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.47 / 5 (378 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14