Never underestimate the power of an individual with a conscience.
Photo by Lucas Berrini
CRITICAL PRAISE FOR MILKWEED
Deahn Berrini’s Milkweed is a gentle revelation, a story whose apparent simplicity belies an unsettling resonance ... [She] has given us an American tapestry, filled with a vivid universe of kids on the edge, seekers, supplicants, the decent and the wayward and the lost, carried forward by a young woman’s quest for understanding as she prepares to launch her life ... Milkweed reminds us that war stories are still the oldest, hardest and most telling and compelling tales we share.”
---Richard Currey, author of Fatal Light and Crossing Over The Vietnam Stories
“Milkweed is one of the rare stories about the Vietnam War that tell the tale of the women who wait for their young men to return from the battlefield ... Berrini has crafted a fine story that will stay with the reader long after the final words are read.”
---Donna Moreau, author of Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor; Homefront to the Vietnam War
“You don’t owe me anything.” With these words Cassandra Leahy learns that her boyfriend, Mark, is coming home from a tour in Vietnam. He’s written daily, but she hasn’t seen him in over a year. Cassie, living in a small seaside town and working in a Greek-owned business, is eager to embark on her own future. As the homecoming unfolds, she finds that Mark is unable to escape from his past. Although set in 1971, this compassionate tale of a community trying to welcome back one of its own has relevance today, as families welcome home a new generation of veterans.
