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Book Review of The Right Side: A Novel

The Right Side: A Novel
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This is a powerful book about loss of self and loss of love. The heroine, LeAnne Hogan, is shortly to leave the Army, but gets talked into re-upping for another year for a special project in Afghanistan. During that time, a bomb exploded near her. The story starts when she is in Walter Reed Hospital, recovering from the loss of her eye, with a piece of shrapnel in her brain and severe scarring to the right side of her face. After yet another trauma she starts out on a quest but she doesn't know where to go or what to do. Along the way a dog adopts her and, in a way, she is her salvation. I highly recommend this book.