Mason, Bobbie Ann

A collection of sixteen short stories by American writer Bobbie Ann Mason which focuses on themes of everyday life.

Sam Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett who is a Vietnam veteran. Sam's father was killed in Vietnam and she wants to understand about the war, but Emmett and other vets refuse to tell her much.

Presents eleven short fiction stories by American author Bobbie Ann Mason, in which she creates ordinary man and women who are trying to find their way in life.

A memoir in which author Bobbie Ann Mason tells the story of her Kentucky farm family and the challenges she and her parents and grandparents faced when the changing world intruded on their rural life.

Decades after being shot down in Occupied Europe, World War II veteran Marshall Stone returns to the crash site, where he finds himself remembering what happened in the days following the crash, when local residents, including a young woman in a blue beret, risked their lives to help him escape from the Nazis, and vows to find out what happened to his rescuers.

Sam Hughes, living in Hopewell, Kentucky, with her Uncle Emmett, a Vietnam veteran, determines in the summer of 1984 to learn more about the war in which her father was killed in spite of the reticence of other vets to discuss the conflict.