Title: The sentimentalists
Description: Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota, and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud's narrator maps her father's past.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Veterans, Fiction, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Veterans, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general