Homefront by Kristen Tsetsi

Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | Posted in: Home, Our Books

A cab driving former English professor, an unpredictable alcoholic Vietnam veteran, an anti-war soldier, and a morbid mother in-law come together in this realistic, sensual, and darkly humorous semi-autobiographical tale of waiting through a war deployment.

Read about Homefront in the Stars and Stripes and the Huffington Post.

“One of the most powerful and brilliant books I have read in a long time. Make this the next book you read.” - PopCultureZoo

“Haunting and lyrical. I had never had a better understanding of the agony of military separation until I read Kristen Tsetsi’s debut novel Homefront. Tsetsi has illuminated this part of war with her crystalline prose and near-perfect rendering of a story about those who wait under the awful burden of not knowing an outcome. Homefront is populated by the same people that live in your hometown and they have similar human failings. They surrender to their urges, act spiteful to cover their hurts, and spread cynicism over the wounds of others as a form of salve to stop their own bleeding. Love and pain is the plot of Homefront but in the hands of this talented artist they are a mighty force.“ –James Moore, Emmy Award-winning former television news correspondent and co-author of the bestselling, Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential

Watch the NBC Interview

Written by a former staff writer for the Journal Inquirer newspaper who is also a former Women’s eNews correspondent, a former English professor, an award-winning fiction writer, editor of American Fiction, and the wife of a former Chinook pilot for the 101st Airborne Division who deployed to Iraq in 2003, Homefront is the product of an author uniquely qualified to tell the intensely intimate story of waiting through a deployment.

. . . . .

“Completely engrossing…totally spellbinding. Tsetsi’s novel hasn’t made it to the bestseller list yet, but it should be there.” - Stacy Leiser, the Leaf Chronicle

. . . . .

“Soulful. Seductive.” –Josip Novakovich, author of April Fool’s Day

. . . . .

“Homefront is where most of us spent the Iraq war; reading it makes vividly clear that those who were closest to its combatants—whatever their politics or beliefs—suffered enormously too, and still found the strength to struggle on.  The novel, so skillful at plumbing the depths of doubt and the agony of fear, is equally skillful at portraying how that agony can turn to ecstasy through the redemptive power of love.”–Paul Griner, author of The German Woman

. . . . .

“Beautiful and stark.” –Feministing.com

. . . . .

“Homefront reads like a long-form haiku written by Charles Bukowski in collaboration with Ann Beattie; almost every paragraph is a stand-alone gem of insight and observation.” –Rick Shefchik, journalist, award-winning columnist, and author of Green Monster and Amen Corner

Buy it: Smashwords | Kindle | Amazon (paperback) | Backword Bookshop

“Tsetsi’s solid, seamless, and detailed writing has the power to bring us into each scene.” –Sonia Reppe, Bookpleasures

. . . . .

“An intensely intimate and affecting story…I was 100 pages into Homefront before I looked up from the book.” –Steven McDermott, Storyglossia

. . . . .