Book Discussion: Absolution, by Alice McDermott

Join our Fiction Book Group online to discuss Absolution, by Alice McDermott.

American women—American wives—have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully.

In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era’s mandate to be “helpmeets” to their ambitious husbands with their own inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam.

Menlo Park’s Fiction Book Group meets virtually on the second Tuesday of each month.

Tuesday, September 09, 2025 | 06:30 PM - 07:45 PM
Zoom webinar

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