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For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

The Year of Magical Thinking meets Fifteen Days in this literary exploration of one Canadian's decision to enlist and go to war.

What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff Francis was a thirty-year-old doctoral candidate and student of Buddhism when he decided that joining the armed forces was the best way to make a difference in the world. In elegant, spare prose that captures both the hardness of war and the nuances of a grieving family, Melanie Murray — Captain Francis's aunt — uses the lens of his life and death to give Canada's war in Afghanistan the perceptive, literary treatment its soldiers, families and citizens deserve.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-307-35978-0
  • EAN
  • 9780307359780
  • Release date
  • 2011