The sentimentalists

By Johanna Skibsrud

Subjects: Veterans, Fiction, family life, general, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Fiction, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Veterans, fiction

Description: Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota, and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud's narrator maps her father's past.