The Things We Do to Make It Home

Beverly Gologorsky

Original title: The things we do to make it home

first published 1999 Seven Stories Press, 2009

The Things We Do to Make It Home captures, in clear, unadorned prose, the legacy the Vietnam War left to the wives and children of the men who fought in it. Beverly Gologorsky's deeply human novel charts the fates of six couples - the men who came home profoundly altered and the women who strove to create for them a safe haven yet in the end could do little more than bear witness to their pain. In 1973, stateside an...

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Things We Do to Make It Home edition · 2011 · Seven Stories Press · 9781299577121
The things we do to make it home edition · 2009 · Seven Stories Press · 9781583228845
The Things We Do to Make It Home paperback · 2000 · Ballantine Books · 240 pages · 9780345428028
Things We Do to Make It Home edition · 2000 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 224 pages · 9781860496998
The things we do to make it home edition · 1999 · Random House · 211 pages
Things We Do to Make It Home edition · 1999 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 224 pages · 9781860497001

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