Home Front By Kristin Hannah

While I appreciate the focus on military families and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder this particular family along with their struggles dealing with deployment and an injury in country left a lot to be desired. I usually like Kristin Hannah’s books but this one was not one I would recommended to anyone. First, the military spouse in this case was the husband was completely ignorant when it came to what was expected from a military spouse after being married to a soldier for 20 years. The two children in the story were so unbelievable. The twelve year old was nothing but an obnoxious brat and the five year old acted like a two year old wanting to play patty cake all the time. As far as the PTSD that was right on with how a person struggles with their new life, but how she returned and reintegrated so quickly, having no help was so far from reality. I believe before this was published Hannah should have completed more research on how a deployment really happens.