[amazon asin=0399163794&template=thumbleft&chan=default]Alison Buckholtz, author of Standing By.

Topic: The making of an American military family in a time of war.

Issues: Adjusting to the unfamiliar (and sometimes unwelcome) role of military wife; the quiet battle military spouses wage to hold their families together during a loved one’s deployment; challenging one’s assumptions about military, motherhood, and even American citizenship.