The Women by Kristin Hannah

Historical Fiction – Book

 

Novel Details

Author: Kristin Hannah

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Number of pages: 471

Year of publication: 2024

Novel Characteristics

Authored by a woman

Published after 2000

Brief Response

Hannah gives us a troubled character in Frances “Frankie” McGrath. Sheltered for most of her life, she enlists in the Army’s nurse corps and ships off to Vietnam after learning of her beloved brother's death. Through Frankie’s eyes, readers experience love and war, life and death, joy and fear, and the all-too-common post-traumatic stress disorder that many Veterans are familiar with. Though the latter half isn’t as compelling as the first, The Women gives readers a main character they can relate to, who comes out on top, if not unscathed. Recommended for fans of Hannah’s other works and those interested in this less popular era.