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Our Brother's Keeper: My Family's Journey through Vietnam to Hell and Back
Advance Praise for Our Brother's Keeper
"Beautifully written and extraordinarily poignant, Our Brother's Keeper is a Vietnam book like none other. The ghosts of Vietnam are finally starting to circle home, and this remarkable writer has given them voice with passion and resonance. I love Jedwin Smith's Fatal Treasure; Our Brother's Keeper is even closer to the heart."
-- Jeff Long, New York Times bestselling author of The Descent and The Reckoning
"Our experience in Vietnam has been searingly recorded in both fiction and nonfiction, but no book about those years is quite like this one. Jedwin Smith's Our Brother's Keeper tells the story of one family that has lived with death by remembrance, and of a man who found redemption when he wanted revenge. It will break your heart, but change it, too."
-- Michael Skube, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in criticism
"I read Our Brother's Keeper in the span of an evening and found it deeply affecting and totally enthralling. This book is a haunting, gut-wrenching, and ultimately redemptive journey through time and the human heart. Magnificent."
--Jack Kerley, author of The Hundredth Man
"Beautifully written and extraordinarily poignant, Our Brother's Keeper is a Vietnam book like none other. The ghosts of Vietnam are finally starting to circle home, and this remarkable writer has given them voice with passion and resonance. I love Jedwin Smith's Fatal Treasure; Our Brother's Keeper is even closer to the heart."
-- Jeff Long, New York Times bestselling author of The Descent and The Reckoning
"Our experience in Vietnam has been searingly recorded in both fiction and nonfiction, but no book about those years is quite like this one. Jedwin Smith's Our Brother's Keeper tells the story of one family that has lived with death by remembrance, and of a man who found redemption when he wanted revenge. It will break your heart, but change it, too."
-- Michael Skube, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in criticism
"I read Our Brother's Keeper in the span of an evening and found it deeply affecting and totally enthralling. This book is a haunting, gut-wrenching, and ultimately redemptive journey through time and the human heart. Magnificent."
--Jack Kerley, author of The Hundredth Man
256 pages, Hardcover
First published March 16, 2005
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October 4, 2009
Every person should read this book to see just how much a family suffers when they lose a loved one in the service. It's a real heartbreaker.
June 2, 2019
WOW - A great read!!
I just heard about this book as I am preparing for the Belvidere Class of 1969 (Joe’s class) 50th reunion. I read it over two days and I was so moved by the story. Jedwin did such a remarkable job on research and then storytelling.
I just heard about this book as I am preparing for the Belvidere Class of 1969 (Joe’s class) 50th reunion. I read it over two days and I was so moved by the story. Jedwin did such a remarkable job on research and then storytelling.
January 23, 2022
A must read for any family touched by war.
September 3, 2023
Touching and Deeply Moving!!
Wonderfully, honestly written on the death of a family member and the lifelong family struggles that follow and how each family member is affected.
Wonderfully, honestly written on the death of a family member and the lifelong family struggles that follow and how each family member is affected.
May 26, 2012
My book of the year! An absolute MUST READ!
May 5, 2021
Great read
April 24, 2017
You've done your service and got out alive, but your younger brother chooses to volunteer and join the Marines, just as you and your father had done. The younger brother enters the fray in Viet Nam and is KIA shaking up the family left behind. Jedwin's story takes him on a retelling of his brother's fate in the rice paddies of Vietnam to track the soldiers who were with his brother and who pulled the trigger that killed his brother. The suspenseful journey becomes a healing process for Jedwin who carries a heavy burden regarding his brother's death with flashbacks to the horrible scars from WWII on his father, island jumping in the Pacific as a highly decorated Marine. Jedwin's writing style will grip you from page one to the final word. Once a Marine, always a Marine! Fantastic story Jedwin.
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