Homefront - by Tony Christini

[Download expanded 2008 version of Homefront free as PDF, or order earlier 2003/2006 version of Homefront as book. The expanded 2008 version incorporates Glory and Washburn, previously published as separate books.]

In this rare explicit antiwar novel, 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 - its factual immoral and illegal nature, the loss of Aaron, with stark implications for themselves and the world. One year after the death, Aaron’s mother Carolyn confronts her waffling US Senator cousin on the deck of their family home.   

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.

Part of the Homefront trilogy, the long story Washburn shows fictive US Senator Sam Washburn in response to the death of his relative Aaron in Iraq, just as he has been defending 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.

Also part of the Homefront trilogy, the novella Glory shows Jim Fielder, after learning of the death of his relative Aaron, re-examining his time in the US military through decades of operations abroad.

Homefront explores the private and public ramifications of militant US policy unlike any other works of fiction.

 

 

Author
Tony Christini is cofounder of Mainstay Press, co-editor of Liberation Lit journal, weblog A Practical Policy, author of various works of fiction and criticism, including: Ganoga (PDF excerpt), Texas MFA (PDF excerpt), Youthtopia (PDF), and Life in these Corporate States of America (PDF excerpt). His fiction, poetry, criticism have appeared: (print) The Texas Observer, The South Carolina Review, The South Dakota Review, Soundings East, and elsewhere; (online) Pemmican, ZNet, Counterpunch….