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Alive Day : a memoir

Alive Day : a memoir

Book 2025

"Karie Fugett is living out of her car in a Kmart parking lot when her boyfriend Cleve suggests "Maybe we could get married or somethin'." Karie says yes out of love, but also out of convenience. As a twenty-year-old high school dropout who ran away from her family and recently lost her job, Karie has nowhere else to turn. Just months after they elope, Cleve's Marine unit is deployed to Iraq. Then Karie gets the call: Cleve's Humvee has been hit...