bNamed by iEsquirei as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year Chanel Miller's iKnow My Namei meets Cheryl Strayed's iWildi and Anthony Swofford's iJarheadi in this powerful literary memoir of a young soldier driven to prove herself in a man's world.bbrRaised by powerful women in a restrictive, sheltered Christian community in New England, Ryan Dostie never imagined herself on the front lines of a war halfway around the world. 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, and has been holding her own until the unthinkable happens she is raped by a fellow soldier.brStruggling with PTSD and commanders who don't trust her story, Dostie finds herself fighting through the isolation of trauma amid the challenges of an unexpected war. What follows is a riveting story of one woman's extraordinary journey to pr