Christina and the Whitefish

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Christina and the Whitefish</em> is a joy to read. If Bruce Springsteen wrote fiction it would read a great deal like this.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Dave Zirin<em> </em></strong><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>The Nation</em> (magazine) author of <em>The Kaepernick Effect</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>To call this novel <em>haunting </em>is an understatement of mega-proportions</strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-a</strong><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>s powerful as Dalton Trumbo's iconic antiwar novel <em>Johnny Got His Gun.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>- Beth Moroney's Book Reviews</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Do yourself your family and your friends a favor-get this book and read it!</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Doug Rawlings founder Veterans For Peace</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The debut novel from award-winning filmmaker and author Stephen Vittoria. This is a book for the moment-a heart wrenching tale about overcoming your demons and finding your people. Vittoria doesn't flinch in the face of painful subject matter. At its heart </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Christina and the Whitefish</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an antiwar and anti-empire narrative one that underscores love resilience and empathy. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's 1994.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Christina a young Gulf War veteran struggling with PTSD and the loss of both parents drives cross-country in a borrowed car desperately seeking relief and redemption in Asbury Park the seaside mecca of her childhood. It's a place well past its prime and reigned over by the self-proclaimed King of Asbury Park: The Whitefish-a disabled Vietnam vet tavern owner artist and oddball philosopher. It's here on the Jersey Shore that a chance meeting leads to a profound and life-altering connection.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rewind to small town America in the 1980s: two young women best friends fall in love when this reality was still something to be kept secret. Christina and Jaime move to Las Vegas to escape the judgment and to build a new life. Unable to cope with her parents' demise and convinced she's doing the right thing for herself and her country Christina enlists in the United States Army only to find herself racked by a further and compounding wartime trauma.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Christina and the Whitefish</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a powerful novel that challenges the conventional treatment and care methods that veterans receive in America's inadequate pharmaceutical-driven healthcare system highlighting the critical importance of human connection to well-being and survival. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Christina and the Whitefish</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> asks tough questions about how to love and when to leave questions that reveal a critical truth: </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>family can be birthed from circumstance</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. And then even in the pain and the stumbling if you don't give up if you keep seeking and moving toward something better friendships and healing will find you-and love no matter how battered can endure even the darkest of times.</span></p><p></p>