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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Vogue

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

American womenAmerican wiveshave been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be helpmeets to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to do good for the people of Vietnam.

Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encount

Absolution

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    A Paperback by Alice McDermott

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 10/31/2023
      ISBN-13 9780374613044
      978-0374613044
      ISBN-10 0374613044

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

      Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Real Simple, and Vogue

      A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

      American womenAmerican wiveshave been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be helpmeets to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to do good for the people of Vietnam.

      Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encount

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