Fidelis, Teresa Fazio
Fidelis, Teresa Fazio
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Fidelis
A Memoir

Author: Teresa Fazio

Narrator: Teresa Fazio

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/19/2021

Synopsis

In 1998, Teresa Fazio signed up for the Marine Corps' ROTC program to pay her way through MIT. After the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, leading to the War on Terror, she graduated with a physics degree into a very different world, owing the Marines four years of active duty. At twenty-three years old and five foot one, Fazio was the youngest and smallest officer in her battalion; the combined effect of her short hair, glasses, and baggy camo was less Hurt Locker than Harry Potter Goes to War. She cut an incongruous figure commanding more experienced troops in an active war zone, where vulnerability was not only taboo but potentially lethal.

In this coming-of-age story set in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Fazio struggles with her past, her sense of authority, and her womanhood. Anger stifles her fear and uncertainty. A forbidden affair placates her need for love and security. But emptiness, guilt, and nightmares plague Fazio through her deployment—and follow her back home.

About Teresa Fazio

Teresa Fazio was a Marine Corps communications officer for four years, deploying once to Iraq. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, and the Nation as well as in the anthologies Retire the Colors: Veterans and Civilians on Iraq and Afghanistan; The Road Ahead: Fiction from the Forever War; and It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. Fazio holds a BS in physics from MIT, a PhD in materials science from Columbia University, and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on July 15, 2020

I really enjoyed the first half; if you’re looking for a read about the perils of Iraq without fierce destruction and action galore, but a POV from a Marine female, this is a good book to pick up. The second half does show some of the harsh experiences (possible PTSD) that veterans experience when r......more

Goodreads review by Adrian on June 19, 2020

Teresa Fazio is a proud former Marine, and her war memoir—Fidelis—is a top rate book about serving as a woman in the military at war. More specifically, how serving in the Marines requires great reservoirs of emotional energy under normal circumstances, and especially on deployment to Iraq. She came......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on September 01, 2020

Teresa Fazio comes from a broken home she has a mother who cheats on her father and ends up leaving the family to live with her lover. Teresa and her brothers are exposed to violence from the step-father and her real father tries to make up for things by buying her and her brothers love. She grows u......more

Goodreads review by Marianne on May 26, 2020

Fidelis is a coming of age memoir set mainly in Iraq shortly after 9/11. The author enters the USMC as an officier after college to serve a three year stint. The book centers around her seven month deployment and the remaining time the Marines upon return. Teresa, or T, has a relationship with anoth......more

Goodreads review by Meredith on August 25, 2020

**I received an e-ARC from NetGalley for an honest review** I wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't. I felt mislead by the description which made it seem as if Fazio faced far more of the war on the battlefield. Overall, the entire book felt overly padded. At least a third of the book was comp......more

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