The Women by Kristin Hannah

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Only weirdos like us see The Women by Kristin Hannah as a palette cleanser.

Show notes:

0:00-2:00 Intro

2:00-4:00 Intro to the characters and gender role chat

4:30 The way Frankie's dad discounted her service

5:00 Barb and Ethel and how women show up for one another

6:00-7:30 The setting, the smells

8:00 Interview with a nurse who had experience in Vietnam

9:00 Letters to the soldiers parents and how Vietnam wasn't that long ago

11:00 Types of death from war

13:00 The amount of people impacted and the timeline

14:00 What was traumatizing to Frankie?

15:00 Some of the love and romance throughout the book

18:00 Part II of the book when Frankie comes home

19:00 PTSD

22:00 Some of the male characters

24:00 Rock bottom and the creation of the farm

28:00 Frankie's relationship with her parents and her new reality

34:00 What happens when girls became pregnant?

36:00 The Werther effect

37:40 Our connections to the Vietnam War

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https://kristinhannah.com/books/the-women/

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https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/vietnam-war-nurse-virginia-lee-dornheggen-oral-history-interview/591115

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2950285324000322

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