Furiously Writing: You Know When the Men Are Gone

Sunday, February 13, 2011

You Know When the Men Are Gone

One of the members of my writing group lent me Siobahn Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone, a collection of related short stories about the Army wives of deployed soldiers and what their lives are like. Well written and engaging, I sat down with this book and didn't get up until 90 minutes later when I was done, and wished there was more. (2)

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