Be Safe I Love You (Hardcover)(Large Print)

from shelleyraec

Be Safe I Love You is a moving story of a young female soldier's homecoming after service in Iraq. Lauren Clay enlisted in the army after her high school graduation in order to provide financial security for her younger brother and depressive father. After five years of service her commitment is ...

from lostinalibrary

Lauren's mother had left the family when she was young and her father suffered from severe depression spending most of his days in bed. By the time she was ten, she had become parent to her younger brother Daniel. She had a brilliant singing voice and had won a scholarship to a prestigious music ...

from TheLostEntwife

I've had Be Safe I Love You by Cara Hoffman on my radar for a while but it was a twitter exchange between two bloggers that I trust that had me pulling it out finally to dive in. The story here is deceptively simple: a young woman from a small town escapes a life of poverty by enlisting and, by e...

from whitreidtan

We ask those in the military to leave their homes and families and go all over the world to ensure our safety. People choose to accept this request for any number of reasons but whatever the motivation is, it's not an easy thing we ask of them. And unacknowledged or unknown by the civilian popula...

from eenerd

Some really gorgeous prose at times and a heartrending tale of a female soldier returning from war. A few holes in the stories/characters knocked this down from a 4.