Fidelis: A Memoir - Paperback
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Fidelis: A Memoir - Paperback
$19.95
by Teresa Fazio (Author)
In 1998 Teresa Fazio signed up for the Marine Corps' ROTC program to pay her way through MIT. After the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, leading to the War on Terror, she graduated with a physics degree into a very different world, owing the Marines four years of active duty. At twenty-three years old and five foot one, Fazio was the youngest and smallest officer in her battalion; the combined effect of her short hair, glasses, and baggy camo was less Hurt Locker than Harry Potter Goes to War. She cut an incongruous figure commanding more experienced troops in an active war zone, where vulnerability was not only taboo but potentially lethal.
In this coming-of-age story set in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Fazio struggles with her past, her sense of authority, and her womanhood. Anger stifles her fear and uncertainty. A forbidden affair placates her need for love and security. But emptiness, guilt, and nightmares plague Fazio through her deployment--and follow her back home.Author Biography
Teresa Fazio was a Marine Corps communications officer for four years, deploying once to Iraq. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, and The Nation as well as in the anthologies Retire the Colors: Veterans and Civilians on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Road Ahead: Fiction from the Forever War, and It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2017). Fazio holds a BS in physics from MIT, a PhD in materials science from Columbia University, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Number of Pages: 232
Dimensions: 0.53 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: October 01, 2022
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