War flower : my life after Iraq

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Label

War flower : my life after Iraq

Title remainder

my life after Iraq

Statement of responsibility

Brooke King

Title variation

My life after Iraq

Creator

• trueKing, Brooke

Author

• trueKing, Brooke

Subject

• trueWomen soldiers -- United States -- Biography
• trueWomen veterans
• trueIraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American
• King, Brooke
• trueMilitary campaigns
• truePeople with post-traumatic stress disorder
• Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
• truePregnant women
• truePsychic trauma
• trueSoldiers
• United States, Army -- Women -- Biography
• trueVeterans
• trueWomen in combat
• trueWomen in combat -- United States
• trueWomen soldiers

Genre

• trueBiography
• truePersonal narratives, American

Language

eng

Summary

Brooke King has been asked over and over what it’s like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants to hear. The story of a girl who went to war and returned home a woman, War Flower gathers the enduring remembrances of a soldier coming to grips with post-traumatic stress disorder. As King recalls her time in Iraq, she reflects on what violence does to a woman and how the psychic wounds of combat are unwittingly passed down from mother to children. War Flower is ultimately a profound meditation on what it means to have been a woman in a war zone and an unsettling exposé on war and its lingering aftershocks

Tone

• trueDisturbing
• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueJargon-filled
• trueCompelling
• trueGritty

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 956.7044/342092
• B

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction