Our guest will be Dr. Nora Eisenberg, PhD, the author of the novel, When You Come Home, which documents the sadness and the waste caused by the “Gulf War Illness.”  We will explore why Ms. Eisenberg wrote this book, what the affects of this syndrome have wrought on thousands of veterans, and are there precious lessons that we must learn from our involvement in overseas campaigns regarding the preparation needed in the future.

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Dr. Eisenberg was the recipient of ForeWord Magazine’s 2004 Gold Prize for her novel Just The Way You Want Me and author of The War at Home, a Washington Post Rave Book of the Year, 2002. Dr. Eisenberg holds a PhD from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature and has taught at Stanford University, Georgetown University, and, for many years, the City University of New York, where she now directs the University’s Faculty Fellowship Publication Program for emerging scholars. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in such places as The Partisan Review, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, Tikkun, and the Guardian UK. She lives in New York City and Narrowsburg, NY.