{"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","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509110280466,"sku":"9781682831793","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2372460f-6a7a-4de0-aceb-1ec60a4b5a3f.jpg?v=1730888643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memorial-days-vietnam-stories-1973-2022-9781682831793","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}