Simone Gorrindo

Jul 3, 2024 | keysweekly.com | Karen Newfield |Amy Harmon |Simone Gorrindo |Wendy Stanley

A Girl Called SamsonBy Amy HarmonDuring the American Revolution, women were rarely seen and never heard. They couldn’t attend school, own land or dream of being soldiers. When Deborah’s father abandoned her family, her mother had no choice but to send the children out as indentured servants. In a way, she was lucky; Deborah was taught to read and write. She was also bestowed upon the kind Thomas family with 10 little boys who taught her to be fearless and competitive.

Jun 12, 2024 | sansabanews.com | Simone Gorrindo

Body The Wives by Simone Gorrindo - Amazon review: “[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review “A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People “ A haunting, beautifully written celebration of found sisterhood.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A fearless, engaging, and important memoir.” —Library Journal (starred review) “[A] gorgeously rendered peek behind the curtain of military...

Apr 22, 2024 | bradfordera.com | Simone Gorrindo

Thank you for your service. Necessary reaction, or awkward sentiment? To some, it's a little of both but most would agree that gratitude is appropriate, even needed. Thank you for putting your life on the line. Thank you for your protection. In the new memoir, "The Wives" by Simone Gorrindo, thank you for remaining behind. She told him she'd leave him. When her partner, Andrew, said he was thinking of joining the military, Simone Gorrindo couldn't imagine it.

Apr 19, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Simone Gorrindo

In THE WIVES, a searing and unflinching memoir, Simone Gorrindo chronicles the moment her marriage changed forever and how it then grew and reformed to accommodate the third party her husband invited into it: the Army. “Sometimes I think about joining the military,” said Andrew one wintry day in 2007 when he was 24 and his then-girlfriend was 23. The young couple had just moved in together in Annapolis, where Andrew was attending a small liberal arts college studying the classics.

Apr 9, 2024 | readinggroupguides.com | Simone Gorrindo

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job --- a profoundly intimate look at marriage, friendship and today’s America. When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia --- a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon.