For Rouenna

from the bestselling author of The Friend
A haunting story about the poignant and unusual friendship between a novelist and the retired army nurse who seeks her out, from the National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman's experiences of war and an unusual friendship

'Resonant and provocative' VOGUE

'One of my favourite authors' NATALIE PORTMAN

I did not remember a Rouenna Zycinski. I was sure I had never known her. But many years ago, according to her letter, we had been neighbors in the same public housing project, on Staten Island.

A writer receives a letter from an old acquaintance, recalling their shared childhood and asking if they can meet. Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. It is only later, in the aftermath of Rouenna's shocking death, that the narrator is drawn to write about her friend - and her friend's war. Writing Rouenna's story becomes all-consuming: at once a necessity and the only consolation.

'For Rouenna is about everything: war and remembrance, how we invent our "selves" and why; why we kill ourselves - or live. I was dazzled by this book' WASHINGTON POST

'Beautifully written . mesmerizing . enthralling' O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

'An entirely different kind of war novel . What emerges is something that feels like truth' SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

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