For Rouenna

"After my first book was published", the narrator tell us, "I received some letters". Among them is one from a Rouenna Zycinski, asking to meet. Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. Later, however, in the aftermath of Rouenna's shocking death, she is compelled to write about her friend - and her friend's war. An unforgettable novel about truth, memory and unexpected heroism.