{"product_id":"memorial-days-vietnam-stories-1973-2022-9781682831793","title":"Memorial Days: Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022","description":"The conflict in Vietnam has been rewritten and reframed\u003cbr\u003einto many corners of American life and has long shadowed contemporary political\u003cbr\u003escience and foreign policy. The war and its aftermath have engendered\u003cbr\u003eaward-winning films and books. It has held up a mirror to the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003eand to the wars of the twenty-first. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in wartime Vietnam and contemporary Vietnam, in\u003cbr\u003ewartime America and in America today, the stories that comprise \u003ci\u003eMemorial Days\u003c\/i\u003e were written from 1973 to\u003cbr\u003ethe present. As our continuing reappraisals of the war's shadow have unspooled\u003cbr\u003eover the last half-decade, so too has Wayne Karlin returned to the subject in\u003cbr\u003ehis fiction, collected and published together here for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA girl in Maryland runs away from Civil War reenactors\u003cbr\u003eshe imagines to be American soldiers in Vietnam, while a woman in Vietnam hides\u003cbr\u003ein the jungle from an American helicopter and another tries to bury the relics\u003cbr\u003eof the war. A man mourns a friend lost in Iraq while a helicopter crewman in\u003cbr\u003eQuang Tri loads the broken and dead into his aircraft. Extras playing soldiers\u003cbr\u003ein a war film in present-day Vietnam model themselves after other war films\u003cbr\u003ewhile a Marine in a war sees himself as a movie character. A snake coiled\u003cbr\u003earound the collective control of a helicopter in Vietnam uncoils in a soldier\u003cbr\u003ecome home from Iraq. The chronology is the chronology of dreams or nightmares\u003cbr\u003eor triggered flashbacks: images and incidents triggering other images and\u003cbr\u003eincidents in a sequence that seems to make no sense--which is exactly the sense\u003cbr\u003eit makes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome stories burn with the fresh experiences of a Marine witnessing\u003cbr\u003ewar firsthand. Some stories radiate a long-abiding grief. All the stories\u003cbr\u003ereflect and reconfigure the Vietnam War as it echoes into the present century, \u003cbr\u003eunder the light of retrospection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682831793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216","brand":"Wayne Karlin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42835623051445,"sku":"9781682831793","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1eb58cd9-edfe-4c7b-bcfc-7e1e800db0ed.jpg?v=1681224485","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/memorial-days-vietnam-stories-1973-2022-9781682831793","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}