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Chasing the Daylight

By JoAnna Rakowski

Joanna Rakowski’s memoir CHASING THE DAYLIGHT details the author’s journey from ballerina to battalion solider, after she emigrated from her native Poland to the United States with her American husband. Rakowski details the challenges in the different levels of basic training, and, later, in Officer Candidate School, and how they affected her physically, psychologically, and emotionally. In addition to learning military terminology in English, she also faced misogyny and the discrimination so many of her fellow ESL recruits faced. How she handled it all, where she triumphed, where she fell short and regrouped to try again, makes an engrossing tale.