Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine

When Crow pledged herself to God, Corps, and Country, women Marines were still a rarity, and gender inequality and harassment were rampant. Determined to prove she belonged, Crow always put her career first--even when, after two miscarriages and a stillborn child, her marriage to another Marine officer began to deteriorate. And when her affair with a prominent general was exposed--and both were threatened with court-martial--Crow was forced to re-evaluate her loyalty to the Marines, her career, and her family.

Eyes Right is Crow's story. A clear-eyed self-portrait of a troubled teen bootstrapping her way out of a world of alcoholism and domestic violence, it is also a rare inside look at the Marines from a woman's perspective. Her memoir, which includes two Pushcart Prize-nominated essays, evokes the challenges of being a woman and a Marine with immediacy and clarity, and in the process reveals how much Crow's generation did for today's military women, and at what cost.


Author: Tracy Crow
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 04/01/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 7.42h x 8.76w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780803235045


Award: Florida Book Award - Bronze Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2012
Shelf Awareness 04/06/2012
Publishers Weekly 05/07/2012

About the Author
Tracy Crow is an assistant professor of creative writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the nonfiction editor of Prime Number magazine. Her essays and short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals and been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. Under the pen name Carver Greene, Crow published the conspiracy thriller An Unlawful Order, the first in a new series to feature a military heroine.