title: Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War
author:  Nancy French 
description: "Nancy French stands for everything right about red-state America: love for God, country, and Wal-Mart. She's funny, she's Southern, <em>and</em> she's smart. I think I'm in love! Just don't tell my wife."<b><i>Michael Graham, radio talk show host and author of <em>Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War</em></b></i><br /><br />A RED STATE OF MIND shows that while you can take the girl out of the South, you can't take the South out of the girl--thank goodness. Nancy French does us GRITS (Girls Raised in the South) proud!"<b><i>Deborah Ford, author of <em>The GRITS Guide to Life</em>, <em>GRITS Friends Are Forevah</em>, and <em>Puttin' on the GRITS</em></b></i><br /><br />"Nancy French isn't just a piercingly funny commentator on the red/blue culture wars; she's a participant. Whether it means standing up to feminist NYU classmates about her 'male-oppression' marriage or publicly shaming her daughter's Philadelphia school board for eliminating 'under God,' Nancy injects a laugh-out-loud freshness into the tired old debate."<b><i>Shaunti Feldhahn, nationally syndicated columnist, <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em>, and author of <em>For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men </em>on <em>A Red State of Mind</em></b></i><br /><br />"This husband-and-wife account of a year in wartime Iraq (2007-2008) artfully captures the mixed emotions that can accompany a loved one's decision to enlist and illustrates that friendship, hope, and humor are vital to survival...An earnest and engaging read that prompts a closer look at patriotism and citizenship, on battlefields and at home."<b>Publishers Weekly</b>
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