TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDermott,Alice
TI  - Absolution
SN  - 9780374610487
AV  - PS3563.C355 A67 2023
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20230505
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Americans
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Military spouses
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Wives
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with baskets filled with candy and toys, they descend on hospitals, orphanages, and a leper colony on the coast, determined to relieve suffering, no matter the cost. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter reaches out to Tricia, now widowed and living in Washington. As the two relive their shared experience in Saigon, they are forced to come to terms with the ways their own lives have been shaped and stunted by Charlene's pursuit of "inconsequential good."
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