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Book Reviews
Publisher's Weekly
While Zacharias entertains, her main point-that a soldier's death brings pain and sorrow to many generations of his family-is a sad truth that Americans are beginning to relearn.
Kirkus Reviews
The daughter of a soldier killed in Vietnam graphically chronicles the permanent wounds his death inflicted on his family. While she honors all those who like her father served their country in that war, Zacharias is more intent on writing about the pain that war inflicts, not its inherent morality.
Book-of-the-Month Club/Literary Guild featured alternate selection.
Library Journal Review- -Sarah Jent, Univ. of Louisville Lib., KY
In this intimate memoir, Zacharias, an award-winning journalist, celebrates her parents: father David Spears, who died in 1966 while serving in Vietnam, and mother Shelby Spears, who was left to raise three young children. Although her story is often grim and tear-inducing, the author celebrates her family and speaks with a genuine and true voice.
**Recommended for all public libraries.
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