Brothers of a Band

Readers will chuckle from beginning to end at the foibles of modern American culture and current politics portrayed in this satire about the Afghanistan War and a young man who grew up wanting to be a professional musician. When Theodore Tooter Rawlings, a classically trained woodwind player, loses his job with a community orchestra, he joins the Army Band to ride out the recession and continue making a living playing his instruments. To his surprise, he ends up in Afghanistan patrolling with a rifle, instead of tooting his horn at Army ceremonies and social occasions. Tooter encounters plenty of nonsense, absurdity and short-comings of the human condition as he ventures through life. Luckily, two things transcend it all - music and the human spirit. A reader who has been in a school band or the U.S. Army, will especially love this book. All author proceeds go to the Wounded Warrior Project and music education programs for kids.