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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Absolution
  name:
    name part: McDermott, Alice
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 324 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In Saigon in 1963, two young American wives form a wary alliance. Tricia is a starry-eyed newlywed, married to a rising oil engineer "on loan" to US Navy Intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a talented hostess and determined altruist, on a mission to relieve the "wretchedness" she sees all around her. When Tricia miscarries, Charlene sweeps her into a cabal of well-dressed do-gooder American wives. Armed with baskets filled with candy and toys, they descend on hospitals, orphanages and a leper colony on the coast, determined to relieve suffering, no matter the cost. Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter reaches out to Tricia, now widowed and living in Washington. As the two relive their shared experience in Saigon, they are forced to come to terms with the ways their own lives have been shaped and stunted by Charlene's pursuit of "inconsequential good."
  note: Alice McDermott.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-vt---
  subject:
    topic: Americans
    geographic: Vietnam
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Female friendship
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Military spouses
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Wives
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3563.C355 A67 2023
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9780374610487
  identifier: 0374610487
  identifier: 9780374613044
  identifier: 0374613044
  identifier: 2023018757
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230505
    record change date: 20240103172412.9
    record identifier: in00004760473