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<p><P>Doreen Woods lives an ordinary life. She is a respected dentist, her son has just graduated from high school, and her husband teaches fifth grade. The one flaw is that her brother, Adam, has MS. Even that isn't all that extraordinary. . . . Then, out of nowhere, Janey Marks shows up, bringing the past with her. <P>In 1971 Doreen was young, idealistic Lucy Johansson. Adam was back from Vietnam, damaged and bitter. Caught up in the anti-war movement Lucy committed a crime that changed everything for both of them. <P><i>She Was</i> spans America, coast to coast, over four decades, to give us the story of one young woman who, like many of her generation, tried to change the world and how, thirty-four years later, in a world that still needs changing, she must pay the consequences.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>Disjointed and anticlimactic, Hallowell's (<I>The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn</I>) take on the far-reaching consequences of Vietnam-era protests gone bad addresses big issues but doesn't quite deliver. Doreen Woods, a successful Colorado dentist, wife and mother, isn't who she seems. Thirty years earlier, she was Lucy Johansson, a Berkeley student and antiwar radica

Who reads She Was: A Novel (P.S.)?

Author

Hallowell, Janis

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061646379

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14