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In Country

By: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrated by: Jill Brennan
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In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent.

"Astronauts have been to the moon,” she blurted out to the picture. “You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade.”

She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to come to life. But Dwayne had died with his secrets. Emmett was walking around with his. Anyone who survived Vietnam seemed to regard it as something personal and embarrassing. Granddad had said they were embarrassed that they were still alive. “I guess you’re not embarrassed,” she said to the picture.

©2005 Bobbie Ann Mason (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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I read this book the year it came out. Listening to it again was just as good. However, the actress does not understand Kentucky accent. There’s a different accent for the mountains, the Bluegrass, and the western coal fields. it’s subtle, but it’s real once your ears are tuned to it. It says different as the counties of York, Derbyshire, Cornwall in England.

If you didn’t live through the Vietnam war, read or listen to this book.

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Story was credible, but the quality of scenes and characters was sabbotaged by narrator's accent.

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