NEW! BRAT FICTION!

Brightwell Publishing has added a new section, with seminal novels by three of the best military brat authors now writing. Click here to check out these books by Pat Conroy, Sarah Bird, and Elizabeth Berg!


And check these out:

"Gives the experience of a military childhood a weight many of us have never fully admitted, allowing our pain, finally, to be saluted alongside our pride."
     ---
The Atlantic Monthly

"A comprehensive, well-written and moving study..."
    ---United Press Internation
 
"Mary takes the testimony of these children of the military experience and tells us what it means. With her brilliant analysis of these far-flung anonymous voices, she lets us know that we are brothers and sisters who belong to a hidden, unpraised country.  To those of us without homes or hometowns, Mary Wertsch gives us, for the first time, a sense and spirit of place."
    --Pat Conroy, author, The Great Santini, from his introduction to Military Brats

"What a colossal achievement. I am completely overwhelmed...
I thought I had covered this waterfront both intellectually and emotionally, but how wrong I was... I was sobbing."

   --Sarah Bird, author, The Yokota Officers Club

"Moving, provocative, inspirational, enlightening..."
   --Barbara F. Schaetti, Transition Dynamics and  Global Nomads

 

Brightwell Publishing was established in 2005 to publish quality books which explore and strengthen the cultural identity of military brats. We believe the publishing industry has an important role to play in assisting this rapidly growing cultural movement. More...
 
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The ground-breaking book, Military Brats , in print since 1991, set the stage for a movement of new-found cultural identity that is still growing.
Temporarily out of stock - new edition in early spring
 
Author Mary Edwards Wertsch , a journalist and Army brat, takes the original approach of viewing the military as a culture: not a corporate culture, as some would have it, but a home culture for those born into it-a culture as valid and powerfully shaping as any other on earth. It is through sharing our stories with one another, she believes, that we rediscover our cultural roots.
 
Her careful analysis of our stories is revelatory: If you were raised in the military, reading this book will help you find the missing piece to the puzzle--and understand your lived experience as never before.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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