Alice McDermott is a great writer. In Absolution she writes about Saigon, Vietnam in 1963. Tricia is newly married to a wonderful man who works for an oil company in Saigon. There she meets other young wives among the lush plants, stunningly high heat, and insects. Tricia meets Charlene who is cunning and manipulative. Charlene comes up with a plan to have her dressmaker make clothes for Barbie dolls to distribute at hospitals, orphanages and even a leper colony. Tricia goes along with Charlene's ideas until she doesn't. Fifty years later Charlene's daughter, Rainy reconnects with Tricia and they trade memories of like in Saigon together. This book is wonderfully written.
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