Kristine Brancolini’s Reviews > The Women > Status Update

With the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, it’s good to see the horrors of that war revisited. The Women tells the fictional story of a naive young nurse who enlists in the Army to serve in Vietnam after her brother has been killed there. It!’s as brutal and horrifying as I expected but the title draws attention to the power of female friendship. Frances grows up fast.