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Agent: Carolyn Savarese, Kneerim & Williams, carolyn@kwlit.com
New from Knopf, March 2023. Order your copy here (and use your indie bookstore if you can!)
“Fascinating… riveting… Black’s immersion in a particular human geography brings home the enormity of the destruction anew.” - New York Times Book Review Click here to read the full review.
Front-page lead review in the Washington Post Book World.
“One of the best recent books on a war that ended half a century ago but that still reverberates.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A fascinating study of the ongoing repercussions of the American war in Vietnam…. a brilliant look at ‘the long, slow process of healing.’”- Publishers Weekly
“Captivating, revelatory, and inspiring, there is nothing like it in the vast literature of the war.” - Christian G. Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides”
“The Long Reckoning is the crucial and necessary history of the lethal legacy of the American war in Vietnam.” - Elizabeth Becker, author of You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
“The Long Reckoning proves that some of the finest literature of the Vietnam War is still being written.” - Elliot Ackerman, author of The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan
“A masterpiece…. a spell-binding read, full of insight, horror, goodness and bravery.” - Ted Osius, former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam
“For all of those who suffered and continue to suffer as a result of America’s Vietnam War, this is the book we’ve been waiting for.” - Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and author of Hanoi’s War.