In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a successful novelist living in �Volvo-driving, higher-education worshipping� Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the U.S. Marine Corps.
 
Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family�s experience of the U.S. Marine Corps. From being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve.
 
From Frank�s realization that among his fellow soccer dads �the very words �boot camp� were pejorative, conjuring up �troubled youths at risk� � to John�s learning that �the Marine next to you is more important than you are,� Keeping Faith is a fascinating and personal reconsideration of issues of class, duty, and patriotism.
 
But as John and his fellow recruits battle to make the cut�and John�s family struggles to deal with the worry and separation, it is also an extremely timely, moving, and wonderfully written human interest story�a moving chronicle of love, duty and patriotism in contemporary America.
 
�Beautifully written ... great insight and unselfconscious humor.��Publishers Weekly
 
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