Going Overboard : The Misadventures of a Military Wife - Hardcover

Smiley, Sarah

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9780451216670: Going Overboard : The Misadventures of a Military Wife

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451216679 ISBN 13: 9780451216670

Publisher: NAL Hardcover, 2005

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In a whimsical memoir, a one-time Navy brat and current Navy wife describes the trials and tribulations of being part of the military family, describing what it is like dealing with her husband's unexpected deployment, coping with raccoons in the attic, getting locked out of the house in her pajamas, developing a crush on a handsome doctor, and more.

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About the Author:

Sarah Smiley is the wife of a Navy flight instructor and the mother of two young boys. Growing up with an Admiral father, she has been a Navy dependent for nearly thirty years.

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Smiley, who pens the nationally syndicated column "Shore Duty," is something of an Erma Bombeck for the military-wife set. She wittily and poignantly writes about being a navy spouse left on base with two young children while her husband is on deployment ("the D-word") overseas, just as the impending war in Iraq is dominating the headlines. Raised a navy brat, Smiley is no stranger to military life, but that doesn't preclude the fear, frustration and freak-outs that often accompany her predicament. Fellow military spouses will appreciate Smiley's humorous accounts of attending Spouse Club support meetings, handling household tasks ("My one saving grace was the toilet," she writes about a broken commode in her guest room. "A mental buffer military wives can depend on is the fact that household chores continue despite all else") and simply coping with the realities of having a husband thousands of miles away who might not return. Smiley's prose is simple and straightforward, and her humor is clever, often emerging in passages when she's at her lowest. Curiously, Smiley doesn't express her views about the Iraq war, and she often ignores the conflict's realities as her personal woes take over.
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