Review: Well written - realistic love story...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
A Candle for A Marine is a well-written, realistic love story between Isaac and Zehava. Eight years after leaving home for boot camp Isaac returns to celebrate Chanukah with his family. You learn that the reason that Isaac has not returned is his old girlfriend Zehava. They were high school sweethearts who grew up together in the same suburb of Dallas.  Isaac, knowing he needed to make something of himself and feeling a higher calling enlisted in the Marines.  While he was in boot camp Zehava tells him she is pregnant -- he wants to marry her -- she says no -- she is not ready for that and that they cannot provide for the child and she is going to put it up for adoption.  Isaac is very angry with her decision.  Isaac is deployed, receives the adoption paperwork and grudgingly signs it (all the while still angry at Zehava and the circumstances). This story shows the choices, heartbreak and eventual understanding of Isaac and Zehara as they see each other again, re-discover each other and come to be at peace with the life decisions that they made as teenagers.