It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first women correspondents in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work to the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from combat missions to the workings of field hospitals. Then one November morning, after narrowly escaping death, Susan and Son find themselves the prisoners of three Vietcong soldiers. Helpless in the hands of the enemy, they face the jungle, living always with the threat of being killed and the slow realization that their complicated relationship is the only thing sustaining them both.
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"Leimbach's mastery of place, of the scents, sounds, terrors and sorrows of [the Vietnam War] reminded me as perhaps only a great novel can that that we are never done with a war even when it is long over, and that only wars and love endure." --Dr. Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
"Fast-paced, vividly descriptive. . . . Leimbach's emphasis on a female reporter in a war that was so often covered by men is refreshing." --The New York Times Book Review "This impressive novel finds a new way of illuminating the horrors of an old war." --PeopleMarti Leimbach is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller Dying Young, which was made into a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts. Born in Washington, D.C., Leimbach attended the Creative Writing program at University of California, Irvine, and Harvard University. She currently lives in England and teaches at the University of Oxford's Creative Writing program.
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