"Don't let the title fool you into thinking this is a light, mindless read. Lily Burana's I Love a Man in Uniform is a thoughtful, poignant and candid story about the joys and heartaches of being a military wife."
— EMILY GIFFIN, author of Love the One You're With, Baby Proof, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue
"Equal parts cultural studies professor and bombshell geek, Lily Burana teases words into impossibly satisfying configurations. Her sparkling prose is like brain tonic served in a coconut shell–it's packaged so whimsically we forget we're being schooled."
— DIABLO CODY, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Juno
I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM
An all-American love story about a former punk-rock stripper and her unlikely marriage to an officer in the U.S. Army.
In this brave, eloquent, and often funny memoir, critically acclaimed author Lily Burana writes about love, war, and the realities of military marriage with an honesty few writers would dare.
A former exotic dancer who once had a penchant for anarchist politics and purple hair dye, Lily's rebellious past never would have suggested a marriage into the military. But then she met Mike, a Military Intelligence officer, and fell hopelessly in love, resulting in a most unorthodox romance--poignant, passionate, and utterly unpredictable.
After Lily and Mike said "I do" in a brief pre-deployment City Hall ceremony, Mike left for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Lily was left in a strange town to endure his absence alone, with no support system and little knowledge of the vast and confusing military world into which she had married...
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TRY
In Denver, Colorado, Daryl Heatherly is a promising young artist, hoping to find the place she fits in. Back home in the country just outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming-the real West-she's returning to the last place her family all lived together, to a life bordered only by sage and sky. And it's there that she rubs up against J.W. Jarrett, a World Champion rodeo cowboy and old-school Southern gentleman...read more!
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Strip City
Lily Burana had been working as a journalist for five years when, on a cross-country assignment, she meets a cowboy in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They fall in love quickly, and in short order he proposes to her. Her cowboy doesn't flinch when she tells him about her past, but as the reality of the engagement sets in, Burana realizes that she can't settle down until she comes to terms with the business of stripping ‹ the controversial but exhilarating crucible in which she came of age...read more!
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