Well -- I just finished The Women by Kristen Hannah. Very well told story, but it was hard on me as I thought it would. My career military father was in Viet Nam for his second tour in 1967. His cousin, who I referred to as my Aunt was an Air Force nurse there, but I think she was a bit later starting in about 1968. They both came home again. Sadly only a few years later my father was attending the War College in Carlisle, PA and died in a car accident while not wearing a seat belt. Best guess from the scene was that he braked sharply on a rural road, maybe to avoid a deer?? She just passed last year.
Anyway... hard subject, hard memories. I generally avoid war movies/stories. I am semi-ready to take on an adult understanding of what I lived as a child some 50+ years later.
Southern Man by Greg Iles came off hold and is my next book as I had guessed... yikes! something like 43 hours!!! After the emotional impact of The Women, it might be a bit too much for me.