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SUMMARY:Classics & Contemporary Book Discussion
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DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss Absolution by Alice McDermott..\nhttps://wi
 lmette.libnet.info/event/11834195
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>We will be reading <em>Absolution</em> by 
 Alice McDermott\, a&nbsp\;riveting account of women&rsquo\;s lives on the 
 margins of the Vietnam War\, from the renowned winner of the National Book
  Award.</p>\n<p>American women―American wives―have been most
 ly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War\, but in&nbsp\;<e
 m>Absolution</em>&nbsp\;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 they balance the er
 a&rsquo\;s mandate to be &ldquo\;helpmeets&rdquo\; to their ambitious husb
 ands with their own inchoate impulse to &ldquo\;do good&rdquo\; for the pe
 ople of Vietnam. Sixty years later\, Charlene&rsquo\;s daughter\, spurred 
 by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet\, reaches out to Tricia. Togethe
 r\, they look back at their time in Saigon\, taking wry account of that pi
 votal year and of Charlene&rsquo\;s altruistic machinations\, and discover
 ing how their own lives as women on the periphery―of politics\, of 
 history\, of war\, of their husbands&rsquo\; convictions―have been 
 shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that follo
 wed America&rsquo\;s tragic interference in Southeast Asia. (From the publ
 isher)</p>\n<p>Copies of the book are available&nbsp\;<a href="https://ccs
 .polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=55.1033.0.0.53&a
 mp\;type=Keyword&amp\;term=absolution%20alice%20mcdermott&amp\;by=KW&amp\;
 sort=RELEVANCE&amp\;limit=&amp\;query=&amp\;page=0&amp\;searchid=2">here</
 a>. Ebook and audiobook copies are available through&nbsp\;<a href="https:
 //dlil.overdrive.com/">Digital Library of Illinois</a>&nbsp\;or the Libby 
 app.</p>\n<p>For those who would like to purchase a copy of&nbsp\;<em>Abso
 lution</em>\, please support our local independent bookstore\,&nbsp\;<a hr
 ef="https://www.thebookstall.com/">The Book Stall</a>&nbsp\;at 811 Elm Str
 eet in Winnetka. Copies may also be available at Books Down Under on the L
 ower Level of the library. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Wilmette Pu
 blic Library.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://wilmette.libnet.info/event/1183
 4195
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