Eleven Days Lea Carpenter by Lea Carpenter 9780307960719, 0307960714, B00IX7GSVW instant download after payment.

“Carpenter provides a convincing portrait of an exclusive and exclusively male military subculture.”  -  The New York Times Book Review

This stunning debut novel opens in May 2011, when Sara’s son, Jason, has been missing for nine days following a Special Operations Forces mission that took place the same night as the bin Laden raid. Knowing nothing more about Jason’s fate than the reporters camped out in front of her Pennsylvania farmhouse, Sara - an editor who immersed herself in all things military after her son became a Naval officer - is determined to discover what’s happened. 

"A deeply affecting story about a mother and a son that attests to the debut of an extraordinarily gifted writer... Ms Carpenter has written a novel that maps - much the way that Jayne Anne Phillips’s classic Machine Dreams and Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country did - the fallout that war has not just on soldiers, who put their lives on the line, but also on their families, who wait anxiously back home.”  -   The New York Times

Through letters and flashbacks, this haunting novel reveals the profound bond between a mother and her son, as it raises fundamental questions about life choices, the military, war, and service to one’s country. Lea Carpenter, a dazzling new talent with the kind of strong and distinctive voice that comes along all too rarely, has given us a thrilling and unforgettable story.