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Start giftingSoldier Girls
The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Narrator
Donna Postel
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Length
15 hours 53 minutes
Language
English
Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home. We see some of them drink too much, have illicit affairs, and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers. And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road, blowing it up. She survives, but her life may never be the same again.
Helen Thorpe was born in London and grew up in Medford, New Jersey. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and Slate. Her radio stories have aired on This American Life and Soundprint. She is also the author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us. Her work has won the Colorado Book Award and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
Donna Postel should have known what path her future would take back in the first grade. Instead of playing a duck or a tree in the first-grade play, she was cast as the narrator, the only speaking role. Now, she can almost always be found in her state-of-the-art studio, where she has recorded hundreds of commercials, corporate narrations, and audiobooks.