Charles Boatman, an aging Vietnam veteran, returns to Vietnam to come to terms with his time as an American soldier in the Vietnam war.  When Charles disappears, his 27 year old daughter, Ada, and 25 year old son, Jon, make the trip themselves to try and find answers.  The novel flits back and forth between Charles’ story and Ada’s.  With Charles we get some of the fairly predictable elements for a Vietnam war novel- his time in Vietnam as young man, his marriage and how […]