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"Beverly Gologorsky's novel proves once again that good fiction is the truest telling of the history of our times.The Things We Do to Make It Home uses the power of story to illuminate an untold tragedy.It goes beyond the terrible effects of Vietnam on its veterans to the widening devastation on the lives of their lovers, wives, and children. Rendered with vivid immediacy, this first novel is a work of rare, revelatory impact." --Helen Yglesias The Things We Do to Make It Home captures, in clear, unadorned prose, the legacy the Vietnam War left to the wives and children of the men who fought in it.Beverly Gologorsky's brilliantly constructed, deeply human novel charts the fates of six couples--the men who came home profoundly altered and the women who strove to create for them a safe haven yet in the end could do little more than bear witness to their pain. In 1973, stateside and seemingly whole,Rooster, Frankie, Jason, and the other vets begin getting on with their lives.Some marry, find jobs, buy houses. But beneath the surface activity, there's a dangerous fault line. Twenty years later, the war is still with Rod and Emma face the loss of their house and everything they have wor

Author

Beverly Gologorsky

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375502019

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities