01428cam a2200325 i 4500 1072691020 TxAuBib 20231212120000.0 160121s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798885794794 (OCoLC)1409441391 TxAuBib rda McDermott, Alice., author. Absolution / Alice McDermott. Large print edition. [Waterville, ME] : Thorndike Press Large Print, 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. -- Provided by publisher. 20231212. Americans Vietnam Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction. Wives Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Psychological fiction. TXKPL