Interview: Author Karie Fugett (Alive Day, 2025)

Amye sits down with memoirist Karie Fugett, author of Alive Day. 

Karie Fugett is living out of her car in a Kmart parking lot when her boyfriend Cleve suggests “Maybe we could get married or somethin’.” Karie says yes out of love, but also out of convenience. As a twenty-year-old high school dropout who ran away from her family and recently lost her job, Karie has nowhere else to turn. Just months after they elope, Cleve’s Marine unit is deployed to Iraq. Then Karie gets the news that Cleve's Humvee has been hit by an IED, and he’s suffered severe injuries.

“A searing, unflinchingly intimate memoir about one young couple caught up in the machinery of America’s military system, learning to live and love through war and all that comes after.”

You can buy Karie’s book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/666031/alive-day-by-karie-fugett/

Follow Karie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kariewrites

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