Meet David French: a 37 year old father of two, pencil-pushing attorney turned soldier after feeling that he was meant to be one.
Meet Nancy French: a 33 year old freelance author and mother of two turned the parenting version of a Swiss Army knife for a year while her husband went to war.
Meet Home and Away, by David and Nancy French: a wonderful book written from each of the 2 unique perspectives that the authors had during that year.
Throughout the book, the husband and wife team take turns writing the chapters, and I found myself overwhelmed with a new appreciation for what our military and military families are going through during deployment. In fact, I wish I had read this book a year or so earlier, since I’ve had friends whose families have been in this same situation and I now know how I could have helped them during the time they were separated from each other.
Those kind of insights – both personal and patriotic – are what I’m taking away from this well-written book. The fact that it was written in a easy-to-read manner with lots of clever wit made it far and away one of the best books I’ve read this year. I highly recommend it, and if you can read through Nancy’s account of snow skiing with Mitt Romney without LOL’ing, I’d probably be willing to pay you the money it costs you to buy the book. Classic!
