Patrick Smithwick’s new memoir War’s Over, Come Home, A Father’s Search for His Son, Two-Tour Marine Veteran of the Iraq War is a call to action. It is changing the behavior of readers toward the homeless. It is changing the behavior of readers toward members of their own family who suffer from PTSD. War’s Over is also the study of a gray area seldom addressed in American letters: experiencing grief not through a final and definite loss, such as the death of a loved one, but rather through an ambiguous loss. 

Patrick is the author of the acclaimed Racing Trilogy Racing My Father, Flying Change and Racing Time. He grew up the son of the legendary Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey A. P. “Paddy” Smithwick. Patrick 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. 

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