HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Palaia, Marian, author.
Subjects
Young women -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Palaia, Marian, author.
by title:
The given world / Ma...
MARC Display
The given world / Marian Palaia.
by
Palaia, Marian, author.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Subjects
Young women -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781476777931 (hbk.) :
1476777934 (hbk.)
Description:
288 pages ; 22 cm
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
A sweeping portrait of post-Vietnam America seen through the eyes of a young woman searching for the courage to go home again. It is 1968. Riley is thirteen, and her brother Mick has gone missing in Vietnam. She struggles to understand and accept, but the world she has always known has fallen apart. At sixteen, she meets a boy from the reservation. He becomes her first love and perhaps her deliverance, except that he, too, is sent to fight, unaware that Riley is carrying his child. Riley sets off then, in search of answers, of clues, of a way to be in the world. She travels from her family's Montana farm to San Francisco, and from there to Saigon. Along the way she becomes rescued and rescuer, by and for a band of scarred angels. Among them: Primo, a half-blind vet with a story he's not telling; Lu, a cab driver with an artist's eye and a habit she can't kick; Phuong, a Saigon barmaid who is Riley's conscience and confidante; and Grace, a banjo-playing girl on a train, carrying her dreams and her grandmother's ashes in a tin box. All are casualties, of the times and of the war, but they carry on, none more tenaciously than Riley herself, a masterpiece of courage and vulnerability, wondering if she'll ever be brave enough to return to the place she once called home.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Kapolei Public Library
Adult Fiction
PALAIA
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.0
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.