Absolution Janet Summer Johnson King Leopold II of Belgium

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Forced to confront the choices that brought them together

Absolution Janet Summer Johnson King Leopold II of BelgiumYou have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. American womenAmerican wiveshave been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance