Pre-Owned Eleven Days (Hardcover) by Lea Carpenter

from AddictedToMorphemes

Fictional account of a single mother raising an extraordinary boy into a man who eventually joins the Navy after 9/11 and becomes a SEAL Team member. Great insight into military life, the politics surrounding war, as well as the history of American wars and the evolution of military practices (th...

from gayla.bassham

Eleven Days, Lea Carpenter I find it so difficult to say interesting things about books that I love. Encomiums tend to be a bit dull, and also ring a bit hollow. So what can I say about this book? It was, to me, very nearly perfect. Beautifully written--not in a showy way, but very elegant. ...

from nomadreader

The backstory: Eleven Days, the debut novel by Lea Carpenter, was longlisted for the 2014 Bailey's Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. The basics: Set in May 2011, Sara's son Jason, part of an elite military unit, has been missing for nine days. Jason and his disappearance a...

from Donna828

The military life is hard on both the soldier and the family. In this fictionalized account of a promising young man who decides to go to the Naval Academy after 9/11, the emphasis is on the psychological aspect of the punitive training to become a Navy SEAL as well as the emotional aspect of giv...

from agjuba

I just finished reading this book, so it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it was that so moved me about the book. Suffice it to say right now that it is remarkable -- intelligent, enlightening, sparse, and powerful all at once.