Midday on Books: "Absolution," from novelist Alice McDermott

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(This conversation originally broadcast on November 30, 2023.) On this encore episode of Midday on Books, Tom speaks with novelist Alice McDermott about her latest novel, "Absolution." The story is set in Vietnam in the earliest days of the war and explores the lives of the American military wives. The book places at its center a young woman, newly married, living in an unfamiliar place, submerged in an unfamiliar milieu of military personnel, consultants and contractors. It is an intimate portrait of a person finding her way, and a telling chronicle of characters that are usually cast as ancillary and secondary.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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