A Year of Absence - Jessica Redmond Press

A Year of Absence: Six women's stories of courage, hope, and love
by Jessica Redmond

MWSA 2005 Gold Medal —
Best Nonfiction Book

First Place Current Events Midwest Book Awards

A Year of Absence follows the lives of six women whose husbands, all members of the U.S. Army's First Armored Division based in Germany, deploy to Iraq in April 2003. A young lieutenant's wife comes dangerously close to alcoholism. Marriages are pushed to the breaking point by the constant strain of fifteen months apart. Each morning the women anxiously scan the headlines, wondering if they still have a husband, if their children still have a father. Some form friendships that become their lifeline. Others somehow find courage despite their isolation.

ISBN 0-9657483-1-6
6"x9" Hardcover 232 pages $24.95

Available at retailers, military exchanges, online at MilitaryFamilyBooks.com, online at Amazon.com, or direct from the publisher. For group discounts, call 651-357-8770.

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Best Nonfiction Book

A Year of Absence awarded Best Current Events Book in Midwest Book Awards.

Military Writers Society of America awarded A Year of Absence the 2005 Gold Medal for Best Nonfiction Book. Read more.

Media Coverage
for Jessica Redmond

Sample interviews:
Newsweek
The Dallas Morning News
Stars and Stripes
The Patriot Ledger

Sample book tour coverage:
Desert Dispatch (Ft Irwin, CA),
The News Tribune (Ft Lewis, WA)

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Praise for A Year of Absence:

"Since The Illiad, soldiers’ lives have been celebrated and bemoaned as the toughest imaginable. But Redmond’s new book, A Year of Absence: Six Women’s Stories of Courage, Hope, and Love, explores what every soldier’s wife knows, but few outside the military culture comprehend: how much long separations and anxiety test the strongest, most self-sufficient and resilient wives." — Stars and Stripes Oct 9, 2005

“A Year of Absence finally gives voice to the very intimate and private struggles of military wives. It's hard not to cry as you read these stories.”
— Yvonne Latty, author of
We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans from World War II to the War in Iraq