In Country

The Story

Sam resents the effects of the Vietnam War, especially the death of her father and her uncle's suffering from Agent Orange ingestion. This understated novel deals with a teenage girl & her gradual acceptance of the death of her father in the Vietnam War. In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. An extraordinary novel of reconciliation and shared hopes--and a youthful confrontation with the legacy of Vietnam. From the acclaimed author of Shiloh and Other Stories.