Introduction by Melissa Amster
I am so excited to help Kristin Hannah celebrate the publication of her latest historical fiction novel, The Women. This was such an incredible story and so well-told. I can't wait for you all to read it! Check out my five-star review. Thanks to St. Martin's Press, we have THREE copies to give away!
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era. (Courtesy of Amazon.)
"Stuns with sacrifice; uplifts with heroism."
~ Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
"Never has a novel of war metamorphosed so profoundly into a story of the human heart."
~ Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
~ Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
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| Photo by Kevin Lynch |
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20 comments:
Thanks for the chance, I would love to read this novel.
My Vietnam war "story" is actually my dad's. We are Canadian. IF he had been in the US, he would have been drafted as his birthday was number 2 in the draft. He said it still haunts him thinking of what could have been.
I had friends who fought in Vietnam.
I remember what a friend went through when he came back to the USA. While I did not lose anyone to the war, some of my friends did.
This sounds so good! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
I remember watching the TV show China Beach.
We were living in Canada and read everything about Vietnam.
There is nothing good to remember about the Vietnam War. Mash was a good TV show set in that era.
For movies I've seen Rescue Dawn. For TV, This Is Us had a storyline in the third season about Vietnam.
Whatever I learned was from the tv show M*A*S*H*
To be honest, I don't know much about Vietnam War, just remember that it ended in mid 1970s when I was a teenager, and then slowly picked up the history of this war as I grew up through some of movies such as Good Morning, Vietnam starred by Robin Williams - he's one of my favorite - it had piqued my interest about Vietnam War, and then I learned some more. I also enjoyed Forrest Gump very much with two of my favorite actors Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise!
I don't really know anything about the Vietnam War and I haven't watched any TV series or movies about it either. Perhaps this book would be a good place to start.
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Quite sure there is nothing to like.
I don’t know much about the Vietnam War, except about the memorial. Maya Lin, a Yale student, designed the memorial, and I have had the privilege of seeing it twice in Washington, D.C.
The only thing I know I learned in school or from tv.
Tour Of Duty is a great TV series set in Vietnam.
I liked Robin Williams' Good Morning Vietnam. I also know that a boy that my mom liked in high school lost his life in Vietnam. And one of my best friend's Dad was a pilot in Vietnam.
My husband's birthday was #1 in the draft pick. He had enlisted in the Navy about 6 months before. He did end up offshore in Vietnam.
Thank you for the giveaway!
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