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Absolution

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Alice McDermott’s sublime novel cuts across decades and continents to tell an unforgettable story of a changing world.

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**AN INSTANT *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER** WINNER OF THE 2024 MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD Named a Best Book of the Year by *Time* , *Esquire* , *Good Housekeeping* , *Kirkus Reviews* , *Los Angeles Times* , NPR, *Oprah Daily* , *Real Simple* , and *Vogue* **A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.** 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 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” for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene’s daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene’s altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery—of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands’ convictions—have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America’s tragic interference in Southeast Asia. A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world.

About Author

Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University's Writer-in-Residence. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY [1967], Sacred Hea

Author

Alice McDermott

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9781250337993

Language

English

Pages

262

Publication Date

10-29-2024

Publisher

Picador

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