Title: Why are we in Vietnam?
First published: November 1, 1987
Description: Narrated by Ranald ("D.J.") Jethroe, Texas's most precocious teenager, on the eve of his departure to fight in Vietnam, this story of a hunting trip in Alaska is both brilliantly entertaining and profoundly thoughtful.
Subjects: Fiction, Young men, Bear hunting, Hunting stories, Bildungsromans, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, Fiction, general
Places: Alaska, Texas