Books by Alice McDermott
“Yes. These are women who are very peripheral, but they are located right where a momentous event is about to happen: the Vietnam War. The characters in this book are educated and progressive young American women who go with their husbands to Vietnam and live in a compound which is entirely American in style. The writer is really coming at her subject matter through a side door because what lies behind all the superficial glitter is America’s disastrous attempt to ‘save’ the Vietnamese from communism.” Read more...
Historical Novels About Women Written Out of History
Alice Jolly, Novelist
Interviews where books by Alice McDermott were recommended
Historical Novels About Women Written Out of History, recommended by Alice Jolly
Historical fiction can be both a valid and a valuable mode of examining unrecorded or forgotten figures in history, argues the award-winning novelist Alice Jolly. That is especially the case for women’s history, which is so often thinly documented. Here she highlights five immersive novels that foreground female stories.
