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The Women A Novel
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| Publisher : | St. Martin's Press (February 6, 2024) |
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| Language : | English |
| Hardcover : | 480 pages |
| ISBN-10 : | 1250178630 |
| ISBN-13 : | 978-1250178633 |
| Item Weight : | 1 pounds |
| Dimensions : | 6.44 x 1.44 x 9.56 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #3 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction |
| Customer Reviews: | 12,971 ratings |
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Rena Lyons –
All the books I have read by Kristin Hannah have been exceptional, but this for me was probably the best. It tells of the horrors endured by the young soldiers in that senseless war in Vietnam and more importantly of the heroic, selfless struggle of the women nurses who were there to nurse, befriend and sustain them in their pain. This is not an easy novel to read. The graphic details of combat-sustained wounds and the descriptions of the living and working conditions in the jungle are all too vivid. Having visited Vietnam, all too often, while reading, I could smell and taste the atmosphere. I lived through the Vietnam war and remember the demonstrations against it. The burning of draft cards and the desecration of US flags. That was my generation.What was new for me and an eye-opener in this book was the aftermath described. We all knew and saw the psychological effect and stress syndrome the Veterans tried to cope with on their return, but the public’s reaction to the returning heroes was something I was unaware of. Perhaps because by the time the war was overI was living abroad and trying to bring up my children. I will not write any more so as not spoil the plot, however, I would recommend this book to anyone who loves historical fiction.
sammand –
I don’t know how to begin writing this review. I was a college student during the war and remember all of the horrific news, the protests and the ambivalence I felt. Then I fell in love with and married a former medic who served in Vietnam. It wasn’t until years into our marriage that he began to tell me his experiences.Kristen Hannah brings all of the idealism, horror and confusion the veterans experienced. The book is divided in two parts: Frankie serving during the war and Frankie upon her discharge from the war. It is within Hannah’s brutal and realistic descriptions of living through bombings and injuries that I could hear the bombs, smell the blood and feel the fear. Yet she weaves love and friendship through the story with beauty. In the second part of the book I felt Frankie’s despair, anxiety, frustration and shame; her falling deeper and deeper into a dark place. Hannah’s telling of Frankie’s descent is telling the story of so many of our veterans today. I could actually feel Frankie’s frustrations and anger as she tried to maneuver through the trauma of PTSD while trying to live a “normal” life.Kristen Hannah has done it again with a novel of honesty, complex characters and a compelling narration of the times. The Women is a triumph. If you lived during this time, it brings back heartbreaking memories. If you are too young to know, this book brings all of the angst of the time period without exaggeration and with harsh reality.
Melissa –
(ARC Review) Another 5-star read from Kristin Hannah. As with her other books, like Firefly Lane, which particularly touched me, Kristin takes you on a whirlwind of emotions with her newest novel The Women, which I believe will be one of the top reads of 2024.This story takes you back to the time of the Vietnam War and showcases women’s contribution to that effort. The central character is a young woman named Frankie whose brother enlists in the war, and she decides to follow him, not knowing what she is getting herself into after living a quite sheltered life, at just 20 years old and just out of nursing school. From there, she is thrown into the horrors of the war – severely wounded men and horrible conditions. Lack of staff leads to not only nursing in extreme conditions but having to learn how to do medical procedures as well. While she does come out with friends for life and making a strong contribution to the effort, she also comes out with the horrors of war leading to PTSD, depression and more on her way to figuring out her life.Filled with twists and turns and ups and downs with a topic that isn’t easy, but important to know more about, I would highly recommend this read and hope that this will bring even more fans to the Kristin Hannah fold.Thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this early copy.
Amy A.Amy A. –
💭 Breathtaking, devastating and evocative, The Women was masterfully crafted and bursting at the seams with emotion. It’s a novel that shifted my understanding and perspective and one that I will, without a doubt, never forget.📚 The Women✍ Kristin Hannah📖 Historical Fiction⭐5/5➡In 1965, idyllic Frances “Frankie” McGrath believes she can put her skills to good use and make the world a better place. Born into a family that idolizes war heroes, including her brother, she sees herself as a trailblazer when she enlists to serve in Vietnam as a nurse. Like so many of the troops she treats, Frankie is unprepared and overwhelmed by the mayhem and devastation of war, and startled by the new reality that she returns to.Frankie’s story is told in the before, during and after of one woman’s harrowing experience in Vietnam. Through the love, loss and loneliness that can only be associated with war, Hannah tells the unforgettable story of one woman but the tale of countless women whose dedication, service and sacrifice deserve the gratitude of a nation.◾🙏 Immense gratitude to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy of The Women. All opinions are my own.🎯 What I loved: Wow. This book honestly blew me away. It typically takes me a while to get into historical fiction novels, and a bit more time to read but I could not put this down and devoured it in two days. Hannah’s tremendous aptitude for humanizing tragedy on a personal level is unlike any writer I’ve ever experienced. Though going into a Kristin Hannah book I know I’m likely to have my heart broken, I feel like I always come out the other side with a different perspective and wisdom than I had going in. Without giving away any spoilers, I’ll just say that this book was incredible. It moved me to tears, had me believing in the resiliency of the human spirit and broke me apart over and over.🙅♀️ What I didn’t: This book was incredible but be prepared to cry.◾Read if you love:*emotional reads*historical fiction focused on the 1960s and 1970s*war fiction◾See also: The Nightingale, Home Front, The Alice Network
Judy Vollmar –
I wish I could give this book more than a five-star rating because I thought it was fantastic! Kristin Hannah has long been one of my favorite authors starting with less complex works such as Firefly Lane and Winter Garden. She was just getting warmed up with those titles. I believe she rose to the next level of achievement with her book The Nightingale. But The Women is in a league of its own. In it, Hannah achieves a new level of writing mastery and maturity. In her Author’s Notes for the book, she writes that the book was a true labor of love that was years in the making because, as a young writer, she wasn’t ready to tackle such an important and complex subject as the Vietnam War and the deep division and pain it caused in America.She not only tackled the assignment, she totally aced it! In her writing, Hannah demonstrates that she had to have listened very carefully and emphatically to the veterans she interviewed who must have formed the factual basis for the book. She also demonstrates great empathy for the story of Frankie and her depths of despair. To come home from war after surviving a surgical camp that was sheer bedlam day in and day out and then to be told that women didn’t serve in Vietnam was, well, there simply aren’t words for it. Believing she lost two great loves and to still feel her parents’ shame for her service was beyond the pale. And then to become addicted as the result of all these grievous slings and arrows of neglect, or whatever you want to call it, is not at all surprising.Fortunately, Frankie was strong and overcame and fortunately the country came to realize its grievous mistake in its failure to welcome home its war wounded. I’m of an age that I remember this time, the chaos, the division in American society and Hannah portrayed it well.
Reading in Morgan Hill –
This book…this book…it is wonderful and awful and thought provoking and something everyone should read.I was a young teen during the time period at the beginning of this book.. I LIVED the memories that Ms. Hannah talks about through her character, Frankie McGrath. I remember some of them fondly. I wondered why we were fighting a war and why. I remember riots and protests and feeling unable to really wrap my head around what was happening to my country. Mostly I just went to school and watched it happening on TV.The Women brought me back to that time, drawing memories back to the top of my consciousness, and realizing what a time of change this was for America. How we treated our Veterans when they came back. Blaming them for mistakes made in Washington and coloring every person coming home as a monster…when they were just doing the job America had asked them to do.I was wrecked by a few parts in this book. Keep some tissues handy. I cried about the incredible loss of a generation of young men. I laughed at the gallows humor that allowed medical personnel to continue just doing their jobs. I’ve been there. The different attitudes about men and women in country.. The lies told to the American people about the Vietnam War. The difficulty making the switch from being shot at as they left Vietnam, and being spit upon when returning to America. The issues of mental health, PTSD diagnosis, and how to handle just being safe. Where did they belong? What had they done that was so wrong?The issues Frankie faced as she returned to her family and to the United States were heart wrenching. A top of her game trauma/surgical nurse, begging for a job once stateside since no one believed there were women in Vietnam. Being turned away by the VA when she knew she needed help, since there were no women in combat. Finally, after falling low enough to be hospitalized for issues brought on by her time in country and her inability to return to the girl she was, she found herself through helping others.This is a worthwhile book for those of us a little to young to serve, but have the memories of those times.. For those who did serve and perhaps would rather forget.. For young people to realize the turbulent times that went on then.I won’t soon forget the characters Ms. Hannah introduced us to in this book or the things we still need to do for our veterans…and for women in general. We seem to be slipping down the same muddy path. After 50 years, I don’t think we’ve learned near enough.The ending was perfect.
Amazon Customer –
I feel just stunned and initially left with few words to describe how absolutely fantastic Kristen Hannah’s The Women is. I had to take a day before reviewing this book to let it fully sink in but, I know I’ll be thinking about it for a while! This book chronicles the life of Frankie McGrath starting in her late teens when she volunteers as an Army Nurse in the Vietnam War to the difficulties she faces when she returns home in the next ten or so years.I loved this book. Simple as that and can’t say it enough. It was heartbreaking to read and the author does not shy away from the gory details of the war. She also sheds light on the shame that veterans faced coming home from the war, given how controversial it became, which is something I didn’t know about. This book really opened my eyes to the PTSD and trauma that returning veterans face and how important support for them is because after all, the freedom that we enjoy as Americans is not free and is a result of veteran sacrifices. This is even more important in the context of our women Vietnam veterans because as we learn in this story, their sacrifices were not valued nearly the same as the male veterans. This story was just so moving and taught me a lot.The book itself I thought was paced very well and Kristen Hannah’s propulsive writing kept me up at night to finish this one. The characters were very endearing and I became very emotionally invested, nearly crying at the end in the hopes that things might finally turn up for our characters. There are lots of tough subjects in this story so, I’d recommend reading trigger warnings or allowing yourself breaks as needed to digest the contents. But, overall I think this was an important book to read and I was left already looking forward to a reread.Fans of Kristen Hannah will not be disappointed, this will be a must read of 2024!!!
Stay At Home Shopper –
No one, and I do mean NO ONE, weaves a story together into a beautiful tapestry quite like Kristin Hannah. I’ve been looking forward to this book’s release for months simply because I know this about the author. Every single one of her books I’ve read has taken me on an incredible journey to another time that has left me reeling in some unimaginable way. And this one did not disappoint. I completely devoured it over the past two days.I am grateful for the hours upon hours of research, including what must have been riveting first-person accounts from women and men who were there to experience this time in history, that Kristin Hannah undoubtedly dedicated into creating this beautiful masterpiece of a story. She makes it feel real. Genuine. Meaningful. And it deserves 100 stars, at least.Why?It’s absolutely brimming with palpable emotion. Every laugh, every tear, every dream, every struggle, every love, every fear, every sorrow, and every heartbreak felt by Frankie was real and raw and untethered within me. It was the best kind of connection a reader can possibly feel with a character.It’s absolutely brimming with a part of history that I simply did not know, was never taught in school — the Vietnam War era. The vivid description of Frankie’s time as an Army nurse “in country” was brutal and horrific and utterly shocking, which made it all the more believable and relatable. My heart pounded through the mortar attacks and constant gunfire and bombings. My ears echoed with the thwump, thwump, thwump of the helicopters bringing push after push of wounded soldiers in for emergency treatment. My eyes burned with the imprint of gushing blood and severed limbs and eviscerated bodies of those wounded, terrified, crying soldiers. Some were saved. Most were lost. All were important. And my heart broke every time Frankie held a dying soldier’s hand, promising to write to his wife. Or his girlfriend. Or his sister. Or his mom.It’s absolutely brimming with the shameful reality that our Vietnam Veterans faced when they returned home from duty. Spat on. Ridiculed. Jeered at. Hated. By their fellow Americans, no less. They were heroes, but they were treated as second-class citizens. Peons. It’s appalling and unfathomable to me.Finally, it’s absolutely brimming with strong, heroic, kick-a$$ women. Women who shared a life-altering experience that was the best time of their lives. And the worst time of their lives. Women who had to fight to be seen upon their return stateside. Women who had earned a place at the heroes’ table, but were repeatedly rejected and dismissed by society. Women who had to forge their own new paths and relearn their place in the world around them. Women who, through it all, formed an unbreakable bond of friendship — a sisterhood — that crossed all the boundaries and lasted all the years of their lives. #TheWomen
Steven E Hunnicutt –
To all those who lived during this time, especially those who showed disrespect to those who serve, read it, you will see yourself and be reminded of the disrespect you showed to those who served, a war they did not start, they believed in their country. These women volunteered to go to Nam, did you know this? This book is so powerful, and so in your face as it should be, it reminds us of our past, a past that should not be forgotten. The picture of the memorial to those women who served, you need to Read ‘Healing Wounds” Diane Carlson Evans, she was a nurse in Nam, she was the one who got the memorial for the woman, she was the woman who fought our government for this memorial and President Reagan wanted no memorial to these women. Read this book. Today you Thank A Veteran, because it is the Political Correct thing to do, it has become like saying Good Morning, it has no meaning. Lesson needs to be learned, I’m a Vet of that War, don’t Thank Me, I did not serve for you, I would not get wounded or die for you. I was taught everyone punches their own ticket. Tell the 58,400 names on the wall Thank You, you can’t. This book is so much more than a number one best seller, this book is so much more than a Novel, This book reminds those who showed disrespect to those who served and should be reminded. Powerful, so Powerful it hurts. Don’t pick up and say you read it in a day or one sitting because you learned nothing, it meant nothing. This is a rare book, meaning what is between the covered you will be hard to find, there are these books out there, but rare. Don’t say you read it, did you learn anything. A Veteran of this time period will get mad, feel the hurt again and I mean not just the women but the men. Read, Keep, Share.
CeleneCelene –
Kristin Hannah is back, baby!!! In a world where The Nightingale is numero uno I am here to tell you The Women gives it a run for its money!What an emotional rollercoaster ride! In true Hannah fashion, she rips your heart apart and mends it back together but with this one she did it to me several times. In a span of two pages, mine was pieced together just to be shattered again. But the ending. Oh my goodness. That ending. 🥺❤️Historical fiction has always been a favorite of mine, but the last year or so I haven’t really focused on it. I knew when I saw this book releasing I was going to read it and with the high praise I saw right off the bat even before its release, I had a feeling I, too, was going to love it. But I also was hesitant, because Historical Fiction hasn’t been my go to lately. It can seem daunting to me at times. They are usually based on true stories and real people, so you know it is going to be an emotional ride. You just don’t know if you are ready to embark on that journey or not. If you know what I am talking about or have felt similar, I am here to tell you, do not let that hold you back on reading this book! This book has the emotions of a romance novel, the edge of your seat tension like a thriller, and it is an absolutely must read for everyone! Please don’t let this one pass you by. Even if historical fiction is not your normal go to genre, I promise this one is worth it!Hannah’s writing is something magical. You are immediately hooked and transported to this world she has created on page one. In our world of reading books, there are good writers, there are bad writers, and then there are phenomenal writers. And Kristin Hannah, my friends, is a phenomenal writer!! When you read her books, you are seeing the words play out inside your head so easily, you feel like you are watching a movie. She is cinematic and that is how I know this book is going to translate so well to screen. How can it not with the foundation she has provided them?? (Yes, Warner Bros. has picked this up for a film! 🙌)So many HF novels focus on WWII. I love those books just as much as the next person, but it is so refreshing to get a different time period, especially from a queen like Hannah. I know nothing of the Vietnam War. I do remember seeing footage of how some people reacted and their opinions of the war, but not to the depths this book takes you on. Or how women were treated that were veterans in this war. That was eye-opening and heart wrenching, but sadly not surprising.Yes, this felt personally for me. As a nurse and a former ICU nurse, I love when we get a protagonist that is also in my field. But this book gutted me and made it feel like Hannah personally dug deep into my soul and stirred up feelings I had buried down deep with this one. I was wrecked. Like sitting in a Mexican restaurant with people all around with tears streaming down my face wrecked while reading this book. I can’t tell you the last time a book emotionally wrecked me like this one did. Now I am not saying everyone will have that visceral reaction. In fact most probably won’t, but I am just telling you that is the response this book got from me. 😅 As usual, I went in blind not knowing what this book was about. I saw high praise and great feedback so I was excited, but like I said earlier I wasn’t expecting this response from reading it.If you’d like to know a short synopsis of the book, it centers around a combat nurse, Frankie, who as recently graduated from nursing school, and despite her parents’ protests and disappointment she has joined the Army to assist as a combat nurse in the Vietnam War. You watch Frankie transform from a naive, young girl who is in way over her head into a straight rockstar and that is something I think everyone in our field can relate to despite all of us not being in a similar predicament she is in.It is divided into two parts. Frankie’s experience during the war and when she comes home. That was another unique take that I appreciated from the author. So many books stay in the combat part of war. Rarely have I read one where you go with the protagonist when they come back home and deal with the “After” part. There are some triggers, so if you want to know more about those feel free to reach out!I’ve never read a book centered around the Vietnam War, so I am extremely grateful Hannah chose this time period to write this amazing novel. And if you haven’t gathered it already, I highly recommend this book for everyone. You are simply doing yourself a disservice if you skip over it. Period.**Also fun fact and as if i couldn’t love this book anymore, my name made an appearance in the book. Granted it was spelled different (Celine), but it was still a pleasant surprise. ☺️