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Dust Child

March 14, 2023

dust child

The Vietnam War has been written about from many points of view in fiction, but for the most part my reading has focused on the years of the war, rife as they are with the atrocities perpetuated on ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, historical fiction, Vietnam, Vietnam War

October Reading Wrap-Up

November 1, 2021

October

  My October reading was as mercurial as the month itself. Here in Michigan we had high humidity, heat, and mosquitos right up until last week, meaning I was cranky and battling hair frizz that ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: literary, mini-reviews, mystery, thriller, Vietnam War

The Mountains Sing

March 16, 2020

mountains

If our stories survive, we will not die, even when our bodies are no longer here on this earth. Hương and her grandmother live alone in Hanoi until they are told to evacuate and move to a remote ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Algonquin Books, cultural, historical fiction, Vietnam, Vietnam War

The Given World

April 27, 2015

given

When Riley is thirteen her brother Mick is declared missing in Vietnam. This news kills what little desire she has to stay in their small town and by the time she is eighteen she is gone, making her ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, debut, literary, Vietnam, Vietnam War

The Sympathizer: A Novel

April 20, 2015

sympathizer

So it was that we soaped ourselves in sadness and we rinsed ourselves with hope, and for all that we believed almost every rumor we heard, almost all of us refused to believe that our nation was ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, Grove Press, historical fiction, literary, Southeast Asia, Vietnam War

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