The Women
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Description
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, worldwide bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds
The Women is is an intimate portrait of female friendship about the women who answered the call of the Vietnam War and paid the price. A coming of age story in a dangerous time and a story of a nation – and a world – divided by war.
'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl.
In 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America.
But Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.
The Women is is an intimate portrait of female friendship about the women who answered the call of the Vietnam War and paid the price. A coming of age story in a dangerous time and a story of a nation – and a world – divided by war.
'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl.
In 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the young men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed America.
But Frankie will also discover the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause.
