Absolution Av Alice Mcdermott

<p><b>AN INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><br><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Time</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Good Housekeeping</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, NPR, <i>Oprah Daily</i>, <i>Real Simple</i>, and <i>Vogue</i></b><br><br><b>A riveting account of women¿s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.<br></b><br><i>You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.</i><br><br>American women¿American wives¿have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in <i>Absolution </i>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¿ fo

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