A review by steph_ine
The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam by Paisley Rekdal

4.0

A well researched, thoughtful, and beautiful telling and examination of the long-term cultural effects of the Vietnam War. Rekdal skillfully weaves the stories and studies she has read and interviewed for, as well as her own experiences and thoughts, in a way that ponders the traumatic effects of war on all the bodies who knew it through experience, or conversation, or relation to those who experienced it. These bodies go beyond the veterans and refugees who directly experienced the war and expand to include all of America and all of Vietnam.