GREEN MONSTER

A VIETNAM WAR NOVEL

De: William Ferrier Jr.

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

April 1968. A Shau Valley, Republic of Vietnam.
Sergeant Caleb Hollis is three months into his second tour when a new man in his platoon looks at the nameless mountain they’re about to assault and calls it the green monster. The name catches. Within a week, the mountain has killed men who said it aloud. Hollis understands, then, what a named place can do to men who have to take it.

Twelve thousand miles east. Spokane, Washington.
Anna Hollis is keeping the house. She teaches third grade at Sheridan Elementary. She bakes bread on Mondays. She reads her husband’s letters at the kitchen table and writes him back that evening. She has been doing this for fourteen months.
Then Ray Duval — Caleb’s childhood friend, home wounded from Khe Sanh — comes to fix the broken back gate. He will not take money. He will not come inside. He will, at a certain distance, simply be there.
Across a year of letters, assaults, countdowns, a buffalo drawing pinned above a classroom radiator, a firebase under monsoon rain, a Montana hayfield, and a rocking chair that will not rock, Green Monster builds toward a single February afternoon on a Spokane porch — when a gate must be opened, and a marriage must be walked back into.

A literary Vietnam War novel for readers of Karl Marlantes, Tim O’Brien, Kent Haruf, and Denis Johnson.