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Thoughts on The Women by Kristin Hannah? I want to read it but don’t know much about the book or the author

Anonymous 14w

Haven’t read any books by that author, but I know people love The Nightingale by her

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Anonymous 14w

It felt very on brand for Kristin Hannah's work, and I enjoyed the perspective. It did at times get a little graphic in terms of violence, which is expected of a book about war

Anonymous 14w

I really liked it- I’ve never given much thought to the nurses who served in Vietnam and I think Hannah gave them a great perspective. It can be brutal at times and it did make me cry, and it was pretty compulsively readable (I do recommend the audiobook too if you like to read books that way)

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#3 14w

HOWEVER, it has been criticized for the gross way it frames the Vietnamese people (basically flat props for the white protagonist’s growth story, little to no exploration of a Vietnamese perspective of the war and overall gave a very white-savior vibe)

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Anonymous

#3 14w

Oh i definitely got that vibe too. Do you think that that could have been intentional? I heard that her research included accounts from actual nurses during the war, so maybe they genuinely did view it that way? The whole America and freedom and 🦅🦅🦅🦅 we will save the poor asians🦅🦅🦅🦅

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cakey 14w

I don’t think it was intentional in that she went “I’m gonna silence the voices of Vietnamese people and ultimately almost dehumanize them mwahahaha 😈” but rather a hole in her perspective that she never challenged. I wouldn’t be surprised if the nurses she interviewed did feel that way because that was the normal viewpoint of their time