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Rachel Starnes

Biography

Rachel Starnes

Rachel Starnes received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from California State University, Fresno. Her essays have appeared in The Colorado Review and Front Porch Journal. She has lived in Scotland, Texas, Saudi Arabia, Florida, California and Nevada, and is currently on the move again with her husband, two sons, a cat and a puppy.

Rachel Starnes

Books by Rachel Starnes

The War at Home: A Wife's Search for Peace (and Other Missions Impossible): A Memoir
by Rachel Starnes - Memoir, Nonfiction

When she fell in love with her brother’s best friend, Rachel Starnes had no idea she was about to repeat a painful family pattern --- marrying a man who leaves regularly and for long stretches to work a dangerous job far from home. Through constant relocations, separations and the crippling doubts of early parenthood, Starnes weaves together strands from her past with the relentless pace of Navy life in a time of war. She evokes the challenges she faces in trying to find and claim a sense of home while struggling to chart a new path and avoid passing on the same legacy to her two young sons.