02709cim a2200385 i 4500 2805890818 TxAuBib 20250706120000.0 r 260609s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250911094 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1250911095 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT17416876 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda McDermott, Alice, author. Absolution [Hoopla] / Alice McDermott. Unabridged. [United States : Macmillan Audio, 2023. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 02 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Rachel Kenney. A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. American women-American wives-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 they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's altruistic machinations, and discovering as they do how their own lives as women on the periphery-of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions-have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia. A virtuosic new novel from one of our most observant, most affecting writers-about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Fiction. fast Audiobooks. lcgft Vilinsky, Jesse, reader. Kenney, Rachel, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15731297?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4337 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/mcm_9781250911094_180.jpeg Cover image