Indian Country

by Philip Caputo

First published 1987

Christian Starkmann came back from Vietnam, but his boyhood friend Bonny George did not. The two had grown up together in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, roaming the wilderness, hunting and fishing. They served in the same platoon in Vietnam, where Bonny George died and was buried. Now Christian tries to build a normal life. He marries June, a social worker with a good heart. They have two daughters. But the war follows him home. Combat memories sear through his mind. Paranoid visions cloud his thoughts and threaten his marriage and career. Worse still, Bonny George appears in his dreams, pressing Christian to confront a secret that could destroy everything he has worked to create. Christian must face what happened in Vietnam before it consumes the life he has built.

Genres: fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, military-fiction

Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking

Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Vietnam

Period: Vietnam War

419 pages · Hardcover · Bantam

Content warnings: war

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