War’s Over, Come Home
A Father’s Search for his Son, Two-Tour
Marine Veteran of the Iraq War
Book Signing with Patrick Smithwick
Saturday, June 3, 5-7PM
War’s Over, Come Home will take your breath away; it will exhaust you; it will infuriate you; it will inspire you. Patrick Smithwick brings the reader on a two-year quest for his son, Andrew, two-tour Marine veteran of the Iraq War, who is running away from war memories, nightmares, hallucinations, and those that love him.
This is a book for our times as well as a memoir that will last; its focus on the life of one homeless veteran and his family is a microcosm of the national nightmare 50,000 homeless veterans and their families are living.
With his fresh, energy-infused and indomitably-positive voice, along with his self-deprecating sense of humor, Smithwick imbues every chapter with hope: hope for his son, hope for his family, hope for his country. This is a memoir of love and perseverance and hope.
Patrick Smithwick
Patrick Smithwick
Patrick Smithwick has been working on his new memoir, War’s Over, Come Home, for five years. War’s Over, Come Home has been a #1 Amazon bestseller, based on preorders, under the category “Iraq History.” Patrick is being featured on a wide variety of podcast and radio interviews, including the upcoming Montel Williams show, Free Thinking.
Patrick is the author of the acclaimed trilogy of memoirs, Racing My Father, Flying Change and Racing Time, and has won awards for the writing of newspaper features, short stories, and magazine pieces while working as a steeplechase jockey and exercise rider of Thoroughbred racehorses on East Coast tracks, and as a Chesapeake Bay waterman, newspaper reporter and English teacher.
Patrick holds a B.A. and an M.L.A. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. from Hollins College, and an EFM (Education for Ministry) from the University of the South.
The author met Ansley, his wife-to-be, at Hollins College. It was love at first sight; they’ve been together since that moment. They live on the farm where Patrick was raised in Monkton, Maryland, and where he writes every morning in the refurbished milking parlor in the barn after feeding his retired racehorse, Riderwood, and Whitman, the donkey. Ansley and Patrick are the parents of three children: Paddy, Andrew and Eliza.