A powerful debut about the lives of girls and women caught in the orbit of the military.

Female recruits weathering toxic masculine environments. Military wives stretched thin across countless military moves, new cities and new selves. Military kids whose mercurial friendships flare and fade to the rhythm of their parent’s career path. Throughout, this collection introduces us to characters who trespass beyond the boundaries of their own realities to discover who they are within someone else’s narrative.

Sara Power writes with insight and emotional precision about what it’s like to be unmoored. Art of Camouflage is memorable at every turn, full of characters whose deepest motivations we recognize intrinsically as our own.

Sara Power is a storyteller from Labrador, and a former artillery officer in the Canadian Forces. Her stories have appeared in journals across Canada, the US, and the UK, and most recently in Best Canadian Stories 2024. Sara was a finalist for the RBC/Canada New Voices Award and received a nomination for a National Magazine Award in the fiction category. Her stories have been recognized with fiction awards from The Malahat Review, Riddle Fence, The Toronto Star, Prairie Fire Magazine, and The New Quarterly. Sara completed a Bachelor of Science from The Royal Military College of Canada and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of British Columbia. She is an alumna of the Disquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, the Banff Centre Writing Studio Program, the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the International Literary Seminars in Kenya. Sara lives in Ottawa with her husband, three children, and coonhound.

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