false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg 2221005 1 <p> Doreen Woods is many things: a successful dentist who donates time and skills to the needy, a loving wife and mother, a sister who cares for her dying brother. She has carefully built an exemplary life. But all of this is threatened when a comrade from the seventies shows up. Over the next week Doreen's past rushes in as she is forced to admit to her family and herself the actions that caused her to change her name and identity three decades earlier. </p> <p> In 1970 she was impressionable and idealistic Lucy Johansson. When her brother, Adam, came home from Vietnam damaged and bitter, they moved to California, where she raged against the war and the Establishment with many others of her generation. She joined an antiwar group and participated in increasingly militant protests designed to bring attention to their cause and to change the world for the better. But all the best intentions and careful planning couldn't keep things from going terribly wrong. </p> <p> Told from a twenty-first-century perspective, <i>She Was</i> spans the width of the American continent and the depth of social upheaval of the second half of the twentieth century. She Was explores the violent, determining act in one woman's life that mirrors the formative trauma of her age. <i>She Was</i> is a story about the indelible nature of the past, about hiding in the ordinary, and, ultimately, about making amends. </p> 2226797 1 5 2008 She Was: A Novel total:32|5:7|4:14|3:8|2:3|1:0| 32 121 76 19 2221005 0061243256 9780061243257 32 19 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221005.She_Was_A_Novel 5 3 false Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 10:13:19 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 10:16:32 -0700 2008
Hallowell is a deft craftswoman, and her novel, an absolutely must read, is a masterful braiding of two counterpoint stories: Doreen the passionate anti-Vietnam war Weather Underground activist who plants a bomb that inadvertently kills a man, and her brother Adam, who serves in t...more...]]> 2221005 0061243256 9780061243257 32 19 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221005.She_Was_A_Novel 5 1 false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 13:51:49 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 14:13:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2221005 0061243256 9780061243257 32 19 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221005.She_Was_A_Novel 0 1 false Thu Mar 20 16:45:56 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 10:21:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2221005 0061243256 9780061243257 32 19 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221005.She_Was_A_Novel 4 1 false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 21:17:03 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 15:09:42 -0700 2008 The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn with another novel that throws quotidian family life together with big, over-arching American political themes. She Was follows a 1970s radical who reinvents herself as a wife, mother, and dentist, only to be "outed" three decades ...more...]]> 2221005 0061243256 9780061243257 32 19 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221005.She_Was_A_Novel 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:49:58 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 10:55:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2221005 0061243256 9780061243257 32 19 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255981544m/2221005.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2221005.She_Was_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Jun 09 12:34:40 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 19:35:45 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 12:34:40 -0700 2008 This book has been an interesting read as it incorporates the seventies history era with today’s. The setting takes place in major cities around the United States and follows the life of a former radical group member, Lucy Johansson. 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