The bungalow
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sarah Jio
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780452297678
Subjects: United States; Older women; Life change events; Americans; Reminiscing in old age; World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army Nurse Corps; Fiction
Description: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow, the two share a private world--until they witness a gruesome crime, Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, The Bungalow chronicles Anne's determination to discover the truth about the twin losses--of life, and of love--that have haunted her for seventy years"--
Notes: "A Plume book."