Formation: A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line

By: Ryan Leigh Dostie

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Synopsis: One of Bookriot's "Best Books of the Summer": Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Anthony Swofford's Jarhead in this powerful literary memoir of a young Army recruit driven to prove herself in a man's world.Raised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian community in New England, Ryan Dostie never imagined herself on the front lines of a war halfway around the world. But then a conversation with an Army recruiter in her high-school cafeteria changes the course of her life. Hired as a linguist, she quickly has to find a space for herself in the testosterone-filled world of the Army barracks, and has been holding her own until the unthinkable happens: she is raped by a fellow soldier.Struggling with PTSD and commanders who don't trust her story, Dostie finds herself fighting through the isolation of trauma amid the challenges of an unexpected war. What follows is a riveting story of one woman's extraordinary journey to prove her worth, physically and mentally, in a world where the odds are stacked against her. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 368 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781538731512
Related ISBNs:: 9781538731536
Publisher:: Grand Central Publishing
Date of Addition:: 06/16/21
Copyrighted By:: Ryan Leigh Dostie
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.