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What We Inherit - A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers (Hardcover)
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What We Inherit - A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers (Hardcover)
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"Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and completely
engrossing, What We Inherit is not a book you'll be forgetting
anytime soon." —Oprah Magazine "Exceptional." —Salman Rushdie
In the wake of her mother’s death, Jessica Pearce Rotondi
uncovers boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper
clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who
disappeared during the CIA-led “Secret War” in Laos in 1972.
The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in search of the truth
that has eluded her family for decades. What she discovers takes
her closer to the mother she lost and the mysteries of a secret war
that changed the rules of engagement forever. In 1943, 19-year-old
Edwin Pearce jumps from a burning B-17 bomber over Germany. Missing
in action for months, his parents finally learn he is a prisoner of
war in Stalag 17. Ed survives nearly three years in prison camp and
a march across the Alps before returning home. Ed’s eldest son
and namesake, Edwin “Jack,” follows his father into the Air
Force. But on the night of March 29, 1972, Jack’s plane vanishes
over the mountains bordering Vietnam and Ed’s past comes roaring
into the present. In 2009, Ed’s granddaughter, Jessica Pearce
Rotondi, is grieving her mother’s death when she stumbles across
declassified CIA documents, letters, and maps that reveal her
family’s decades-long search for Jack. What We Inherit is
Rotondi’s story of her own hunt for answers as she retraces her
grandfather’s 1973 path across Southeast Asia in search of his
son. An excavation of inherited trauma on a personal and national
scale, What We Inherit reveals the power of a father’s refusal to
be silenced and a daughter’s quest to rediscover her voice in the
wake of loss. As Rotondi nears the last known place Jack was seen
alive, she grows closer to understanding the mystery that has
haunted her family for generations—and the destructive impact of
a family secret so big it encompassed an entire war.
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Imprint: |
Unnamed Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2020 |
Authors: |
Jessica Pearce Rotondi
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
275 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-951213-07-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-951213-07-6 |
Barcode: |
9781951213077 |
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