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Formation : a woman's memoir of stepping out of line / Ryan Leigh Dostie.

Summary:

The author describes her time as a soldier in the United States Army where she was raped by a fellow soldier and had to cope with PTSD, isolation, and commanders who did not believe her story.

"Raised by strong women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian cult in New England, Ryan Dostie never imagined herself on the front lines of a war halfway across the globe. But then a conversation with an Army recruiter in her high-school cafeteria changes the course of her life. Hired as a linguist, she quickly has to find a space for herself in the testosterone-filled world of the Army barracks. She's able to hold her own until the unthinkable happens and she is raped by a fellow soldier. Struggling with trauma and a command hierarchy that doesn't trust her story, Dostie finds herself fighting through her isolation amid the challenges of an unexpected war. What follows is a sweepingly beautiful, riveting, and inspiring story of one woman's extraordinary journey to prove her worth, physically and mentally, in a world in which the odds are stacked against her."--Dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781538731536
ISBN: 1538731533
Physical Description: viii, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Violation, How it happened -- What they want -- Exodus -- Quarters -- Classical conditioning -- Spoliation of evidence -- Shock and awe -- The last push before the end -- Conception, In the beginning -- Event horizon -- Suck it the fuck up, Buttercup -- Cry "havoc" -- Redacted -- Welcome -- JRTC -- Consumption -- Invasion, Entrenching -- Indiscriminate -- Filicide -- Respite -- The way we're trained -- Uninspired -- Ace of hearts and clubs -- What isn't mine -- Rage against the machine -- Monster in a box -- The way we break -- Reconstruction -- Getting out of Baghdad -- The ghosts of Al Kut -- Two miles out -- Desecration. Homecoming -- Your ending, my beginning -- Fight me, bitch -- The warworn's battle cry -- Just say the word -- Interim -- Tubthumping -- Belletristic -- The thing in my vagina -- Interim II -- The bat -- Dirty little whore -- The breaking point -- Interim III -- Closing.