Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Review: The Women

 The Women

 by Kristin Hannah

Wow!  How I loved and hated this book. Loved the people—smart, serious and confused Frankie, who signed up to be an Army nurse to be together with her brother in Vietnam. Kind Ethel, who always went the extra steps for her dearest friends. And devoted Barb, no stranger to loss and disappointment of her own but always ready to throw it off for a party with her besties.  And I hated the needless suffering they all endured when returning to a country that spit on soldiers in uniform. And I had to hate Frankie's clueless parents. And Frankie’s guy, for whom her desire and neediness was confused with
'love' and might ruin her life forever…or is she stronger than that?  Or is he?

Not telling and I may have told too much already.

This is a great book and seems to be flawlessly researched and plotted. It fits in with everything I ever knew and didn’t want to know about the war.

 

 

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