Between the Lines Book Club Reads “The Women" - APL

Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there’s a time that works for you! Did we mention there’s FREE refreshments?

This month we’ll be discussing “The Women” by Kristin Hannah! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro Library to pick up your copy today!

Aurora: Thursday, June 26th @ 1 pm
Dillsboro: Friday, June 27th @ 1 pm
Aurora: Tuesday, July 1st @ 6 pm

“Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.

But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.” -Goodreads