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...summer of 1981, the war in Vietnam is re-emerging as an item of profoundly unfinished moral and psychological business. It is not so much a nasty secret as a subject that Americans agreed not to discuss for a time. Some 2.9 million Americans served in Indochina. The majority of them managed to put their lives together after the war ... But nearly 100,000 vets came back with severe physical disabilities: fast evacuation by helicopter and excellent medical care saved thousands of men-many without arms and legs-who might otherwise have died ... BUT THE REAL DEVILS...
...snap decision, a well-intentioned lie calculated to spare his wife unnecessary grief, instead puts a terrible secret at the center of their life together. "He had wanted to spare her," Edwards writes in The Memory Keeper's Daughter, "to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past...
...Meanwhile, the nurse, instead of sending the disabled girl away, decides to raise her as her own child. The lives of the two twins unfold separately but in parallel, the one illuminating the other, each illustrating the way a secret meant to set people free can end up trapping them instead...
...only getting better. If the secret of Kim Edwards wasn't out before, it certainly is now. In fact, secrets are a bit of a theme with Edwards - is there something she needs to get off her chest? "Nothing of this magnitude," she says with a laugh. "Just the usual kinds of secrets one keeps...
...Americans.It emerges that the ‘only one day’ notion is, naturally, untrue. I am to apply, pay a $50 fee, and then wait for my proposal to be vetted by a committee of Tanzanian intellectuals. “It is secret,” Mama Gideon saucily informs me when I ask the names of those on the committee. If my enumeration of my project’s “beneficiaries” sufficiently pleases the committee, which meets next month—I somehow resisted the temptation to scrawl jokingly “lumpenproletariat?...