Tue, Jul 11
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Patrick Smithwick, War's Over, Come Home: A Father's Search for His Son
Smithwick's intense personal experiences he and his family undergo in their exhausting, heart wrenching efforts to help their family member, an Iraq War veteran, is an honest portrayal of what many veterans and their families have to go through.
Date, Time & Location
Jul 11, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and live-streamed to Zoom, register to watch on Zoom here.
Cabinet Secretary Donnie Quintana of the New Mexico Deptartment of Veterans Services will introduce the evening, talk briefly about veteran services and take questions from the audience after the presentation.
War's Over, Come Home: A Father's Search for His Son, Two-Tour Marine Veteran of the Iraq War can be purchased from CW online here or by calling the store at (505) 988-4226.
For soldiers and their families, wars never end. The memories come home, occasionally in triumph, but more often in unpredictable and debilitating ways barely visible to the larger public. Most accounts rightly focus on the soldier’s struggles. Compelling and revealing, Patrick Smithwick’s War’s Over, Come Home is a rare and intimate account from a family’s vantage point, an essential perspective often missed. Their transcontinental efforts to find Iraq war veteran Andrew Smithwick—son,…