For Your Tomorrow
Author | : Melanie Murray |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307359780 |
ISBN-13 | : 0307359786 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The Year of Magical Thinking meets Fifteen Days in this literary exploration of one Canadian's decision to enlist and go to war. What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray - Captain Francis's aunt - uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve.