Bill Kaghan’s Reviews > The Women > Status Update

The protagonist, Frankie, did her tour of duty in Vietnam from 1967 to1969. Those were my sophomore to senior year in high school. I felt like I was revisiting my memories of that time when all American teenage boys lived under the shadow of the draft and the possibility of doing combat in Southeast Asia. The novel helped me appreciate the trauma of the war from a perspective that I was not familiar with.