The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
(Part of the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Series)
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The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident--in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war--Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0820351172
ISBN13:9780820351179
Release Date:September 2017
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.53 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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