I grew up during the Vietnam War. I knew female nurses served in the war zone, but I didn't know there were female reporters on the ground too. Here is their story.
Author Dorothy Love brings 1968 Vietnam to life. Journalist Tallis searches for a big story and for her missing friend. She finds the country ripe with soldiers, doctors, reporters, and locals - all distinctive and suspect. Yet even in the desecration of war, there is beauty, friendship, and love.
If Kristin Hannah's The Women left you wanting more, this is your story!
"Thoroughly engrossing and atmospheric....A Season In Saigon is a winner." Midwest Book Review1968. When an honest mistake shreds her professional reputation, fashion writer Tallis Reed buys a one-way ticket to Saigon, determined to salvage her career and to make a difference by reporting the war's hidden stories. But in a wary city teeming with refugees and orphans, soldiers and spies, truth is elusive and danger is an ever-present shadow.The last thing she expects is to fall in love with Nick Landry, a doctor volunteering in a remote provincial hospital. Ruggedly handsome and intensely private, Nick has come to Saigon for…
Five women, friends since college, pack secrets and wounds from a previous trip, and hit the road. I want to call friends and plan out our own drive, but first...I need to read this story again! I have to figure out how this author wove all the threads together to build such suspense!
"Accomplished achronological storytelling with a fabulous final twist."—Kirkus ReviewsTwenty years after tragedy tore them apart, four sorority sisters still can’t say no to sweet Mary Blake Bulloch. Reeling from a public divorce, Mary Blake rallies the group to complete a long-ago road trip cut short by scandal, betrayal, and the death of a Texas oilman’s son.Time hasn’t healed all wounds. Helen's hiding a crumbling marriage. Charlie's haunted by a deathbed promise. Annesley's harboring life-changing news. And Lisa knows her decades-long silence about what really happened that fateful night could cost her everything—and everyone.As the women pick up where they left…
With excellent writing, the author weaves her family's story with the history of colonization, genocide, and oppression of Native people. Boarding schools were one of many ways the government attempted to destroy Indigenous people. The legacy of this trauma is seen today in high rates of suicide, diabetes, mental illness, addiction. Yet there are hopeful signs of truth-telling, searches for cemeteries, and apologies. And there are people of resilience, who rise up, grow, and overcome.
Ten years ago, rock star Alan Wolfe stole Maren’s innocence. Now, years after Alan’s death, his brother Neil appears on her doorstep, searching for the baby he believes to be his niece. Maren’s fiercely protective instincts kick in. She must shield her daughter from the Wolfes and their fame.
Neil introduces himself to her daughter, forcing Maren to tell her daughter about the circumstances of her conception. The girl looks more like Alan than any of his other children and her gift for music is too much of a coincidence—her parentage won’t stay secret much longer.
As Neil’s efforts to make amends collide with Maren’s resistance, they confront painful memories and long-buried emotions. Will their uneasy alliance survive the scrutiny of the media and the wrath of Alan's widow and children?
Join Maren and Neil as they learn to harmonize the music of their hearts into a beautiful duet.
