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  <title><![CDATA[For Rouenna: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>After my first book was published, the narrator tells us, I received some letters. Among them is one from a Rouenna Zycinski, asking to meet. Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. Later, however, in the aftermath of Rouennas shocking death, she is compelled to write about her friendand her friends war. An unforgettable novel about truth, memory, and unexpected heroism.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sigrid Nunez]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminds me of Tim O'Brien's work, in that both complicate/interrogate the idea of memory, of remembering, of fiction, of history.  <br/><br/>Lovely novel, but like other novels about the Vietnam War I've read recently, I wish the authors had explored more the reasons the U.S. invaded Vietnam. I wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36547965">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best-- and saddest-- books I've read in a long time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Women in war. Beautifully written. A character and subject you'll never forget.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent novel about a Vietnam nurse.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like her characters whose capacity to breathe and keep breathing is confined by personality, experience and memory, Nuñez is careful to exhale this story within a narrow construct—nostalgia for Vietnam. For one generation, the time, the place and the people are not easy to understand or remember....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46945356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Sigrid book.  It's about a Vietnam army nurse and if the character doesn't really grab you, there's not much going on.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not awesome like <u>The Last of Her Kind</u> but a new perspective on the Vietnam War (that of a female nurse).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[12/27 rec via bookmooch]]></body>
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