New Book Shows Bond of Army Wives During the Turbulent Vietnam War Years

On the coattails of the new hit TV show, Armythey could become war widows.
Wives, comes a blockbuster hit novel from PhyllisSharon is a Northern Jewish anti-war protester
Zimbler Miller. MRS. LIEUTENANT is getting ravewho fell in love with an ROTC cadet; Kim is a
reviews and gives us our "army wives" fix whenSouthern Baptist whose husband is intensely
relaxing by the poolside or by the beach insteadjealous; Donna is a Puerto Rican who grew up in
of the TV.an enlisted man´s family; and Wendy is a
In the spring of 1970 - right after the Kent StateSouthern black whose parents have sheltered her
National Guard shootings and Presidentfrom the brutal reality of racism in America.
Nixon´s two-month incursion into CambodiaRead MRS. LIEUTENANT to discover what
- four newly married young women comehappens as these women overcome their
together at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, when theirprejudices, reveal their darkest secrets, and are
husbands go on active duty as officers in the U.S.initiated into their new lives as army
Army.officers´ wives during the turbulent
Different as these four women are, they haveVietnam War period.
one thing in common: Their overwhelming fearMRS. LIEUTENANT was a semi-finalist for the
that, right after these nine weeks of training, theirAmazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
husbands could be shipped out to Vietnam - and