![]() ![]() Via e-mail, caught up with the Easter Island author about the uneasy legacy of “just war”-and how the birth of her daughter helped influence her most indelible character to date. ![]() ![]() There she encounters a combat-scarred deserter who may know something of her brother’s fate-just one of the elements of suspense in Vanderbes’s unputdownable third novel, which finds contemporary resonance in classic themes of humanity and loyalty tested by extremes. When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a mysterious letter from her adored older brother, missing at the front, she lies about her age and enlists, landing a post as an army nurse at a field hospital north of Rome. It seems like no war has inspired more novels than World War II, but **Jennifer Vanderbes’**s The Secret of Raven Point(Scribner) is strikingly vivid, tackling war’s moral ambiguities from the open-eyed perspective of a young American woman on the cusp of adulthood. ![]()
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