title: The Home Front
author: Margaret Vandenburg
description: "This sharply observed novel concerns two wars. Todd Barron is an Air Force major who operates drones, bombing Taliban targets from an air-conditioned base in the Nevada desert. His wife, Rose, spends her days waging a different sort of battle at home: Their 4-year-old son, Max, has autism. Vandenburg draws overt parallels between the two home fronts. Her depictions of both autism and the drone program are convincing. and she moves confidently between Rose's and Todd's perspectives. The novel is schematic, but also profoundly timely."<b>The New York Times</b><br /><br />"Vandenburg has a clear understanding of both modern warfare and autism, and her depiction of the Barrons' coping mechanisms is touching and realistic." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />"Margaret Vandenburg's <i>The Home Front</i> combines a fighter pilot and his autistic son, drone surveillance and domestic decoding, an overly-determined mother, desert joyrides, hamburgers with relish, and a questionable online guru to produce a compelling portrait of an American family on the verge of a nervous breakdown." --<b>Eliza Factor</b>, author of <i>The Mercury Fountain</i><br /><br />"Vandenburg excels at writing about the military and the drone program--how it functions, and what's required of the participants. She creates a solid comparison utilizing the targeted, precise and finite. drone program against Autism treatment, which is vast, malleable and uncertain. Among it all is Todd and Rose's faltering relationship and the complexities in dealing with a child with autism. What cure is there? It s all open-ended." --<b>Entertainment Realm</b>
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  # Homeburg Memories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Helgesen Fitch
  
  
  This page formatted 2007 Blackmask Online.
  
  
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  * [I. THE 4:11 TRAIN](home_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [II. THE FRIENDLY FIRE-FIEND](home_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [III. HOMEBURG'S TWO FOUR-HUNDREDTHS](home_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [IV. THE SERVANT QUESTION IN HOMEBURG](home_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [V. HOMEBURG'S LEISURE CLASS](home_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [VI. HOMEBURG'S WORST ENEMY](home_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [VII. THE HOMEBURG WEEKLY DEMOCRAT](home_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [VIII. THE HOMEBURG MARINE BAND](home_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  * [IX. THE AUTO GAME IN HOMEBURG](home_split_10.html#1_0_10)
  
  
  * [X. THE HOMEBURG TELEPHONE EXCHANGE](home_split_11.html#1_0_11)
  
  
  * [XI. A HOMEBURG SCHOOL ELECTION](home_split_12.html#1_0_12)
  
  
  * [XII. CHRISTMAS AT HOMEBURG](home_split_13.html#1_0_13)
  
  
  
  
  
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