Hannah takes up the Vietnam epic and re-centers the story on the experience of women ... Hannah is in top form here, plunging the reader into the chaotic miseries of the combat zone. She deploys details to visceral effect.
She again proves her skill at submerging readers in a compelling character's experience and enlightening them about history's overlooked heroines ... Hannah has rendered you helpless at this point, compelled by a character who grows increasingly complicated and flawed, as she flails in love and life and joins a quest for recognition of the approximately 10,000 women who served in Vietnam.
Reading Hannah’s books may be a masochistic pastime, but it’s also a hugely popular one ... Is there a single line — 'Not my Leni' — that will get the waterworks going years after reading it? I would love to tell you, but my screen is getting inexplicably blurry.
Hannah demonstrates her knack for blending broad sweeps of history with page-turning plots to immediately engross legions of readers in even the most difficult of subjects ... A compelling read as well as a new understanding of the Vietnam era.
