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Jul 18, 2011BPLNextBestAdults rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This novel is a love story about a female war photographer, Helen Adams who is covering the Vietnam War. It is part love story and also recounts the horror of war. The three main characters, Sam Darrow (war correspondent), Helen Adams (war photographer) and Linh (photographer’s assistant and lover) are all risk takers. Helen Adams first arrives in Vietnam in 1965 as a college dropout and a novice photographer. Helen comes to Vietnam in the hopes of documenting and understanding the combat that killed her younger brother. Soli’s novel is very powerful and describes in vivid detail the fall of Vietnam, the horror of the many battles that are fought and the final days before the American evacuation of Saigon.