I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles - Tapa dura

"A surprisingly tender -- although also mordant and sly -- memoir about the marriage between a feminist pro-sex rebel and a military officer." -- The San Francisco Chronicle ""A humorous, moving and surprising account of married life in today's military... {Burana's] details elevate this honest and touching personal memoir into a notable historical document." -- New York Times Book Review "Don't let the title fool you into thinking this might be a fluffy read. Lily Burana's I Love a Man in Uniform is a thoughtful, poignant, and candid story about the joys and heartaches of being a military wife." -- author of Love the One You're With, Baby Proof, Something Blue and Something Borrowed "EMILY GIFFIN" "Lily Burana is a great writer, able to transform everyday experience into transcendent art. What Lily achieves in her intersection with the culture of the modern day Army is simply extraordinary. This fierce, often funny volume about being a military wife during wartime-about life going on- deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in our curious times." "Lily Burana is as American as apple pie, dazzling as a Fourth of July firecracker, and smarter than a lash from a Senate Majority whip. Equal parts Cultural Studies professor and bombshell geek, she teases words into impossibly satisfying configurations. Her sparkling prose is like brain tonic served in a coconutshell-it's packaged so whimsically we forget we're being schooled."

From the author of the acclaimed memoir Strip City comes an eloquent and funny account of this former punk-rock stripper's unlikely marriage to an officer in the U.S. Army. From harrowing emotion to the dishy details of being an Army wife, Burana bares her heart and soul as a modern military spouse.