Milkweed by Deahn Berrini
Deahn's novel, Milkweed, takes place in her home town, Ipswich, Massachusetts, during the Vietnam War. A young woman, Cassandra,
finds that her returning veteran, Mark, is no longer the same person she has known, loved, and waited for. Intelligent and thougthful,
Cassandra draws the reader in as she makes choices about her relationship with Mark, her friends, and her own future.
We Came to Fight a War by Jack Flynn, as remembered and told to him by Alvin Kotler.
I call Jack's book My Brothers' Book because it was written by my younger
brother Jack about my older brother Bill, a B-17 pilot during World War
II. Bill died last year, and, at his wake, an elderly man stepped up to
the coffin, pinned wings on my brother's lapel, then stood back and saluted.
The man was Al Kotler, the radio gunner and last living member of Bill's
crew. He began telling stories to Jack, which culminated in this book.
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