THE WARRIOR, A MOTHER’S STORY OF A SON AT WAR

THE WARRIOR, A MOTHER’S STORY OF A SON AT WAR
By Frances Richey

Richey, Frances. 2008.THE WARRIOR, A MOTHER’S STORY OF A SON AT WAR. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN 9780670019618.

Frances Richey began writing when her son Ben, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, went on his first deployment to Iraq. The Warrior is a mother’s personal journey exploring the grief of missing a son, prayers being said, and the anxiousness of waiting for him to return home safe. Richey’s poems tell the story of her love for her son through a nonrhyming verse, stories that have a sense of urgency, love, and pain. The Warrior is not only for mothers who anxiously wait for the safe arrival of their son’s who are away at war, but for anyone who is waiting for a love one away at war.