"Christina and the Whitefish is a joy to read. If Bruce Springsteen wrote fiction, it would read a great deal like this."
- Dave Zirin, The Nation (magazine), author of The Kaepernick Effect
"To call this novel haunting is an understatement of mega-proportions-as powerful as Dalton Trumbo's iconic antiwar novel, Johnny Got His Gun."
- Beth Moroney's Book Reviews
"Do yourself, your family, and your friends a favor-get this book and read it!"
- Doug Rawlings, founder Veterans For Peace
The debut novel from award-winning filmmaker and author, Stephen Vittoria. This is a book for the moment-a heart wrenching tale about overcoming your demons and finding your people. Vittoria doesn't flinch in the face of painful subject matter. At its heart, Christina and the Whitefish is an antiwar and anti-empire narrative, one that underscores love, resilience, and empathy.
It's 1994. Christina, a young Gulf War veteran struggling with PTSD and the loss of both parents, drives cross-country in a borrowed car, desperately seeking relief and redemption in Asbury Park, the seaside mecca of her childhood. It's a place well past its prime and reigned over by the self-proclaimed King of Asbury Park: The Whitefish-a disabled Vietnam vet, tavern owner, artist, and oddball philosopher. It's here, on the Jersey Shore, that a chance meeting leads to a profound and life-altering connection.
Rewind to small town America in the 1980s: two young women, best friends, fall in love when this reality was still something to be kept secret. Christina and Jaime move to Las Vegas to escape the judgment and to build a new life. Unable to cope with her parents' demise, and convinced she's doing the right thing for herself and her country, Christina enlists in the United States Army, only to find herself racked by a further and compounding wartime trauma.
Christina and the Whitefish is a powerful novel that challenges the conventional treatment and care methods that veterans receive in America's inadequate, pharmaceutical-driven healthcare system, highlighting the critical importance of human connection to well-being and survival.
Christina and the Whitefish asks tough questions about how to love and when to leave, questions that reveal a critical truth: family can be birthed from circumstance. And then, even in the pain and the stumbling, if you don't give up, if you keep seeking and moving toward something better, friendships and healing will find you-and love, no matter how battered, can endure even the darkest of times.
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