Only weirdos like us see The Women by Kristin Hannah as a palette cleanser.
Show notes:
0:00-2:00 Intro
2:00-4:00 Intro to the characters and gender role chat
4:30 The way Frankie's dad discounted her service
5:00 Barb and Ethel and how women show up for one another
6:00-7:30 The setting, the smells
8:00 Interview with a nurse who had experience in Vietnam
9:00 Letters to the soldiers parents and how Vietnam wasn't that long ago
11:00 Types of death from war
13:00 The amount of people impacted and the timeline
14:00 What was traumatizing to Frankie?
15:00 Some of the love and romance throughout the book
18:00 Part II of the book when Frankie comes home
19:00 PTSD
22:00 Some of the male characters
24:00 Rock bottom and the creation of the farm
28:00 Frankie's relationship with her parents and her new reality
34:00 What happens when girls became pregnant?
36:00 The Werther effect
37:40 Our connections to the Vietnam War
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https://kristinhannah.com/books/the-women/
https://www.vvmf.org/echoes/EP12/
https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/vietnam-war-nurse-virginia-lee-dornheggen-oral-history-interview/591115
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2950285324000322
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