A gorgeous, washed, clear morning, cool breezes through the window. I heard the thunder yesterday ...
It is a disjointed memory, attached to impressions. I was fourteen, traveling in France with ...
a close up of a purple flower
Construction vehicles make the road to campus a slalom run. The enormous crane sitting on what used to be an athletic field reaches into the low-hanging clouds like Jack's beanstalk. After yesterday's thunderstorms, the heatwave has broken. ...

Two high school classmates take very different paths to negotiate the war that marked their coming of age. Decades later they reconnect, learn to listen to one another’s story. They travel in space and time to the Vietnam of their memories and seek to reconcile both with the reality of today.

SEEKING QUAN AM
A DUAL MEMOIR OF WAR AND VIETNAM

 

by Susan R. Dixon and Mark M. Smith