“Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line” By Ryan Leigh Dostie. Grand Central Publishing, June 2019. 359 pages. $28.Ryan Leigh Dostie was only 20 when she enlisted in the Army to become a linguist in military intelligence. She was already fluent in Japanese - a language and culture she loved - and would go on to become proficient in Farsi without incurring the expense of college. If only she hadn’t been raped in the first months of her tour of duty. [...]
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