Fiction. What happens to a soldier after war? What happens to the
people he comes back to? THE COUNTRY OF LONELINESS is about
concentric circles of the effects of war--on soldiers and
survivors, on mothers, sisters, widows, wives and children. Dawn
Paul's richly nuanced book portrays the life of a Depression-era
boy who naively hopes that soldiering will allow him to escape
poverty and isolation. Though he returns physically intact from
battle, he is scarred psychically--a bully and a terror to his
family and himself. The novel alternates between a daughter's
memories of growing up with this man who was both father and
stranger, and the stories she creates of his boyhood and youth. It
is through these acts of imagining and remembering that she seeks
forgiveness and compassion. THE COUNTRY OF LONELINESS is a
testament to the power of the imagination to transcend loss,
estrangement and grief.
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