Absolution A Novel

Alice McDermott, Jesse Vilinsky, Rachel Kenney

eAudio - 2023

"A breath of fresh air."—BookPage"Both narrators bring deep emotional tonality...this exceptional listen will foster deep book club discussions." —Booklist "Alternately gripping, moving, and thought-provoking...this is an audiobook to savor." - AudioFileA riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives.American women—American wives—have 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 corpo...rate 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... more