Della Brown served as a U.S. Army nurse in Vietnam, and 30 years later still struggles to make peace with her memories. On the eve of the war in Iraq, Della must confront the fissures in her family life, the mystery of her father’s disappearance, the things mothers and daughters cannot—maybe should not—know about one another, and the lifelong repercussions of a single mistake. An unflinching depiction of war and its personal costs, and of a woman in mid-life who was long ago a soldier.
- Rights Contact
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Lynn Kanter
<LynnKanterBooks@gmail.com>
- Award(s)
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Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year, Silver, and War & Military Fiction
- Book Website
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http://www.shademountainpress.com/lynnkanter.php
- Contributor(s)
- Lynn Kanter
- Publisher
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Shade Mountain Press
- ISBN-13
- 978-0-9913555-2-5
- Publication Date
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Nov 1, 2014
- Pages
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211
- Price
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$18.95
- Tags
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#literary
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#historical
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Our Review
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A woman’s story of wartime PTSD gathers complex characters to shed light on a little-discussed point of view. "Her Own Vietnam", by Lynn Kanter, is the story of Della Brown, who served as an army nurse in Vietnam but only begins to address her trauma decades later, when an old friend who shared...
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