Our Brother's Keeper: My Family's Journey through Vietnam to Hell and Back
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0471467596 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vietnam: One family's war James D. Smith Jedwin Smith (no relation, but I was once his boss at the Atlanta newspaper where we both worked) has written a spellbinding account of how his brother's death in Vietnam (remember that war?) impacted his family and fueled his own decline into alcohol and depression. Without bitterness or animosity, he relates the unraveling of his family and eventually tells of how he and his siblin. Nicole Scourtis said Our Brother'sKeeper: My Family's Journey through Vietnam to. About six weeks ago I was told I HAD to read this book for a book club that I am in. I am a romance/mystery junkie and put off reading what I felt would be a depressing WAR bookHow wrong was I? This book, which reads like a great story instead of nonfiction, was riveting and inspiring with as much to say about family and interpersonal relations as it does about the Vietnam war. I lau. Gut-wrenching yet remarkable book Michael Luck This is the kind of well-written book you'll read in 24 hours but think about for weeks. Its the gut-wrenching story of a family suffering through the loss of a beloved son/brother to the Vietnam War. The author, Jedwin Smith, gives us a rare insight into the long-term effects a family endures and also allows us to go along on his painful and emotional journey toward some sense of he
It will break your heart, but change it, too." -- Michael Skube, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in criticism "I read Our Brother's Keeper in the span of an evening and found it deeply affecting and totally enthralling. I love Jedwin Smith's Fatal Treasure; Our Brother's Keeper is even closer to the heart." -- Jeff Long, New York Times bestselling author of The Descent and The Reckoning "Our experience in Vietnam has been searingly recorded in both fiction and nonfiction, but no book about those years is quite like this one. This book is a haunting, gut-wrenching, and ultimately redemptive journey through time and the human heart. Advance Praise for Our Brother's Keeper "Beautifully written and extraordinarily poignant, Our Brother's Keeper is a Vietnam book like none other. Jedwin Smith's Our Brother's Keeper tells the story of one family that has lived with death by remembrance, and of a man who found redemption when he wanted revenge. The ghosts of Vietnam are finally starting to circle home, and this
All rights reserved. soldier's death on his family. Smith's other brothers and sisters suffered severe and lasting psychological problems, and Smith himself - while outwardly coping well by marrying, having children and working his way up the journalism ladder - became an emotional cripple bent on self-destruction: "Not only did I thoroughly embrace alcohol, but I also became kind of psychotic." Smith tells his story with bluntness and conviction, including what becomes a cathartic happy ending when he and two of his brother's fellow Marines make a journey to Vietnam in 2001 to visit the spot where Jeff died. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This muscularly written, starkly honest memoir