01972cam a2200349 i 4500 1077555571 TxAuBib 20231218120000.0 231115s2023||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798885794794 hardcover (OCoLC)1409441391 TxAuBib rda McDermott, Alice, author. Absolution [large print] / Alice McDermott. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2023. ©2023. 453 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 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. 20231218. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction. Female Friendship Fiction. Military Spouses Fiction. Wives Fiction. Large Type Books. Large print books. Historical Fiction. Psychological Fiction.