The Sentimentalists

Johanna Skibsrud · 2009 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A young woman moves in with her dying father, a Vietnam veteran who tells her shifting accounts of what happened to a fellow soldier. She slowly pieces together the war and its silence from his stories. A debut first printed by a small press in 2009, it won the 2010 Giller Prize and then reached a far larger audience.

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