The given world / Marian Palaia.

A sweeping portrait of post-Vietnam America seen through the eyes of a young woman searching for the courage to go home again. It is 1968. Riley is thirteen, and her brother Mick has gone missing in Vietnam. She struggles to understand and accept, but the world she has always known has fallen apart....

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Main Author: Palaia, Marian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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