In Homefront, the extended family of Aaron Thompson (a fictive soldier slain during the opening weeks of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003) grapple with the private and public ramifications of the US conquest of Iraq – the loss of Aaron and its factual immoral and illegal nature – with stark implications for themselves and the world. One year after the death, Aaron’s mother Carolyn confronts her waffling US Senator, her cousin Sam Washburn, on the deck of their family home. Meanwhile, the senator defends himself from recent allegations of his role in leading the sort of massacre in Vietnam decades past that was all too typical of US aggression in that country. Distant relative, Jim Fielder, after learning of the death of Aaron, re-examines his time in the US military through decades of operations abroad.
Homefront “has its own compelling style that sweeps the reader into the minds and hearts of its characters.” -Ron Jacobs, ”Optimism of the Will“ - review at Counterpunch.
Homefront is available in paperback at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere. Available as ebook (Kindle, Sony Reader, etc) via Smashwords.
Author
Tony Christini is teacher, writer, publisher, and cofounder of Mainstay Press and Liberation Lit.
