You Know When the Men Are Gone

Title: You Know When the Men Are Gone

Author: Siobhan Fallon

Pages: 5 discs

Genre: Short Stories

Grade: B

Synopsis: This book is a collection of short stories about the lives of the wives and children left home at Fort Hood in Texas while their husbands are deployed (presumably to Afghanistan or Iraq).  Each of the women deal with their husband's deployment in different ways, or more accurately, struggles with their husband's absence differently.  One finds herself obsessing about her neighbor and how she is parenting or spending her time.  Another struggles to visit the PX without having a breakdown when she gets there.

My Review: I enjoyed this collection of short stories, that all had the common thread of deployment running from one to the next.  There were a number of stories that I would have enjoyed reading for another few chapters.