FIVE STARS!!

The Women is a devastating, moving, haunting, educational, harrowing, and beautiful story. An impacting story where we follow Frankie on her journey of self-discovery from post-high school, nursing school, to Vietnam where the reader is drawn into Frankie’s everyday harrowing, tense, and emotional experiences and encounters. I cried four times before I’d even gotten further than a quarter way into the book. I learned so much how nurses, doctors lived in their assigned base camps, and a taste of what soldiers went through. Her post-Vietnam life was full of struggles, suffering, PTSD, trying to cope with virtually no help. All the while, she gave us glimpse on what was going on in my country, America, during those tumultuous years. Her experiences were relatable, so real, human, and believable. I cried and smiled by the end of the story. Won’t give away anything else. Exceptional book worth reading!

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