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CONTACT:
Jill Hendrix
Fiction Addiction
864-675-0540
info@fiction-addiction.com
http://www.fiction-addiction.com
Talk & Book Signing for Former Greenvillian and U.S. Marine Tracy Crow
 Greenville, SC, July 14, 2012 - Former Greenville resident and U.S. Marine Tracy Crow will be discussing and signing her new memoir, Eyes Right: Confessions from a Woman Marine (University of Nebraska Press, hardcover, $24.95), at Fiction Addiction's new store location (1175 Woods Crossing Rd.) on Thursday, August 9th, at 7:00pm. This event is free, but RSVPs are requested. Tracy will give a talk, take questions from the audience, then sign copies of her books.
Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in the Corps she became a respected public affairs officer and military journalist -- one day covering tank maneuvers or beach assaults, the next interviewing the secretary of the Navy. But success didn't come without a price.
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.
 Tracy Crow is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the nonfiction editor of Prime Number magazine. Before she moved to Florida to pursue her writing career, she was a Greenville resident for over ten years and enjoyed an extremely successful career as a real estate agent with C. Dan Joyner from 1995-2000. Tracy's 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.
If you cannot make the signing, you can reserve a personalized copy of Eyes Right by contacting Fiction Addiction in advance at 864-675-0540 or at info@fiction-addiction.com.
ABOUT FICTION ADDICTION - Fiction Addiction is a local, woman-owned, independent bookstore established in 2001. The store carries a mixture of new and used fiction and nonfiction, including children's books, as well as gift items. As of July 16th, we will be open at our new location at 1175 Woods Crossing Road (in the shopping center with Five Guys and Fried Green Tomatoes).
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