From the publisher: "American women&mdash\ ;American wives&mdash\;have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War\, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed\, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence . Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three\, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963\, the two women form a wary alliance as the y balance the era&rsquo\;s mandate to be &ldquo\;helpmeets&rdquo\; to thei r ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to &ldquo\;do good&rd quo\; for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later\, Charlene&rsquo\;s dau ghter\, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet\, reaches out to Tricia. Together\, they look back at their time in Saigon\, taking wry ac count of that pivotal year and of Charlene&rsquo\;s altruistic machination s\, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery&mdash\;o f politics\, of history\, of war\, of their husbands&rsquo\; convictions&m dash\;have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequ ences that followed America&rsquo\;s tragic interference in Southeast Asia ."
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