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* THE TOP 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *

''One of the finest contemporary novels I''ve read ... A moral masterpiece'' ANN PATCHETT

''Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me with wonder'' RACHEL JOYCE

''Damning and dazzling ... The story of a Vietnam we never got in history class'' OPRAH DAILY

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You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.
1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to do good for the people of Vietnam.

Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/29/2024
      ISBN13: 9781526673619, 978-1526673619
      ISBN10: 1526673614
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      * THE TOP 10 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *

      ''One of the finest contemporary novels I''ve read ... A moral masterpiece'' ANN PATCHETT

      ''Her writing has a luminous kind of clarity, a grace and scope that fills me with wonder'' RACHEL JOYCE

      ''Damning and dazzling ... The story of a Vietnam we never got in history class'' OPRAH DAILY

      -----------------

      You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.
      1963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to do good for the people of Vietnam.

      Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with

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