WOLF SEASON
Book Review: Helen Benedict | Wolf Season, Carolyn Quimby, Chronogram, 1 September 2017
Helen Benedict: Scribe of Women and War, Review of Wolf Season and author review, Wendy Smith, Publishers Weekly, August 2017
REVIEWS
Is There Such a Thing as Catskill Lit?, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Lit Hub, 9 May, 2018
Collateral Damage: A Review of Helen Benedict's Wolf Season, Priya Malhotra, The Fray, 16 March 2018
Review of Wolf Season, Rebecca Foster, Bookbrowse, 3 January 2018
5 Books Making News This Week, Jane Ciabattari, Literary Hub, 21 November 2017
The Page 69 Test, Helen Benedict, blog Page 69 Test, 11 November 2017
Wolf Season: A Novel, Jenny Ferguson, Washington Independent Review of Books, 27 October 2017
Wolf Season by Helen Benedict, Kirkus Reviews, October 2017
Wolf Season by Helen Benedict, Lynette G. Esposito, North of Oxford, October 2018
Wolf Season Review, Steve Wieberg, The Kansas City Star, 12 October 2017
Review of Wolf Season, Lanie Tankard, The Woven Tale Press, 10 October 2017
Fiction Book Review: Wolf Season, Publishers Weekly, October 2017
War Stories: Wolf Season, Time Now, October 2017
Starred Review of Wolf Season, Library Journal, 15 September 2017
Booklist Review: Wolf Season, Leah Strauss, Booklist, 15 September 2017
SAND QUEEN
"Gut-wrenching.... not recommended for the faint of heart...a novel that will leave you deeply unsettled if not shaken to the root of your being."—Herald-Dispatch, September 2011
"Two women, an Iraqi refugee whose father and young brother were detained by American soldiers, and a 19-year-old American Army Specialist, wrestle with the complexities of war in Benedict's thrilling and thoughtful new novel."—Publishers Weekly, June 2011
REVIEWS
The 10 Best Contemporary War Novels, Publishers Weekly, January 2014
Sand Queen Review, Bustle, November 2014
A tale of two women in Iraq - a civilian and a soldier, Boston Globe, August 2011
PRAISE FOR SAND QUEEN
"This is 'The Things They Carried’ for women in Iraq."—The Boston Globe, August 2011
". . . [I]t is clearly Ms. Benedict’s intention to turn stereotypes upside down, make readers squirm, and yet still keep them reading. Ms. Benedict pulls off this audacious gambit because she is an exceptional writer and storyteller. Her gritty depiction of a soldier’s life in the Iraq desert is particularly well done. SAND QUEEN is so powerful precisely because Helen Benedict is so pissed off.”—New York Journal of Books, August 2011
"This is an eyeopening novel that allows readers to step into the combat boots of a young, inexperienced female soldier living and working in a place where the line between friend and foe is nearly impossible to distinguish. Funny, shocking, painful, and, at times, deeply disturbing, SAND QUEEN takes readers beyond the news and onto the battlefield."—Booklist, June 2011
THE LONELY SOLDIER
“No matter your politics, this book is vital. Helen Benedict's brilliant and compassionate reporting is neither left nor right -- it's human. For a man reading The Lonely Soldier, you know these women -- they are your mother, sister, cousin, daughter. Their stories of injustice in the U.S. Military will tear your guts out.”—Dale Maharidge, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them
“As a 29-year Army and Army Reserve Colonel, I urge everyone─especially women considering joining the US military─to read this important book. Through unforgettable stories, The Lonely Soldier explains the shocking frequency of sexual assault and what can be done.”—Army Reserve Colonel Ann Wright
“It’s outrageously immoral that our female soldiers have to fear many of the male soldiers they serve with, as well as being let down by the very Veterans Affairs system that's supposed to help them out. Thanks to Helen Benedict, the world is watching!”—Roseanne Barr, Emmy Award-winning actor
REVIEWS
Augusta Holocaust center play to highlight struggle of women at war, Central Maine, March 2015
Sexual Assault in the Military: Victims or Survivors?, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, January 2013
The Invisible War — Documentary Spotlighting Rape in the Military Aims to Create National Awareness, Huffington Post, September 2012
Film Reveals "The Invisible War" on Women in Our Military, Colorlines, January 2012
Review: The Lonely Soldier, Los Angeles Times, May 2009
The Feminine, Touched: War as Women’s Work, The New York Times, March 10, 2009
U.S. Women in Iraq Fight Two Wars, Jewish News, March 2009
The Lonely Soldier Monologues, The Village Voice, March 18, 2009
Theater for The New City Presents "The Lonely Soldier Monologues (Women at War in Iraq)", BroadwayWorld.com, March 2009
The Wartime Experience of American Women is Told in The Soldiers' Own Words, Newsblaze, February 2009
PRAISE FOR THE LONELY SOLDIER
“Once again, Helen Benedict reports what others sweep under the rug, and reveals a pattern where others see random events. The Lonely Soldier will shock you and enrage you and bring you to tears. It’s must reading for everyone who cares about women, justice, fairness, the military, and the United States.”—Katha Pollitt, award-winning columnist for The Nation
“It is hard to determine what is most disturbing about this book—the devious and immoral tactics used by leaders and recruiters to get women to join the military, the terrible poverty and personal violence women were escaping that lead them to be vulnerable to such manipulation, the raping and harassing of women soldiers by their superiors and comrades once they got to Iraq, or the untreated homelessness, illnesses and madness that have haunted women since they came home. The Lonely Soldier is an important book, a crucial accounting of the shameful war on women who gave their bodies, lives and souls for their country.”—Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist and author of The Vagina Monologues