The question at the heart of Alice McDermott's latest book is - what do you sacrifice in order to do something good for someone else? The author's answer is told through the story of Tricia, a young ...
In her first encounter, as an undergraduate in the ’70s, with the novel “The Quiet American,” Alice McDermott was struck both by Graham Greene’s then-prescient warning about America’s military ...
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