Absolution

Absolution
Absolution
Absolution

This title has a release date of October 31, 2023. See below for more information.

Written by: Alice McDermott

Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux

New York Times Best Seller

Absolution Release Date

Absolution releases October 31, 2023

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October 31, 2023

Absolution Release Date

Absolution released on October 31, 2023.

Absolution Synopsis

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer “on loan” to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the “wretchedness” she sees all around her.

When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with baskets filled with candy and toys, they descend on hospitals, orphanages, and a leper colony on the coast, determined to relieve suffering, no matter the cost.

Sixty years later, Charlene’s daughter reaches out to Tricia, now widowed and living in Washington. As the two relive their shared experience in Saigon, they are forced to come to terms with the ways their own lives have been shaped and stunted by Charlene’s pursuit of “inconsequential good.”

With a narrative impact that recalls Graham Greene’s The Quiet American , Alice McDermott confronts the unresolved mysteries and ironies of America’s tragic interference in Southeast Asia.

Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

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