Finding Pete by Jill Hunting
Two days after Jill Hunting turned fifteen, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with International Voluntary Services and one of the first civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. News broadcasts and headlines announced to the world that Pete had been led into an ambush by friends. When Jill's mother told her that Pete's letters home had all been destroyed in a basement flood, the connection between Jill and her brother was lost forever-or so she thought. Decades later, 175 letters surfaced. Through them, and the sweethearts and many friends who had never forgotten Pete, Jill came to know him again. Finding Pete is one of the great, untold true stories of an escalating war and a young man caught in its sights. This personalized account of a critical moment in U.S. history is the moving story of an altruistic youth who personifies what America lost in Vietnam. It is also a portrait of a family's struggle with loss, a mother's damaging grief, and, most of all, a sister's quest to solve a mystery and recover the connection with her brother. Includes a reader's guide.
Finding Pete is a beautifully written history - of loss, love, and redemptionIt is the story not only of one family's private tragedy, but also of the larger heartbreak of war. Hunting shows us that if we look carefully and lovingly enough, we can find not only what we've lost, but also ourselves - often in the most unexpected places. RACHEL DEWOSKIN, author of Foreign Babes in Beijing
JILL HUNTING is a writer, editor, and radio essayist. She proposed the Book of Remembrance, a sculpture honoring civilians killed in war, for the new headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington, D.C. She lives in Sonoma, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780819569233 |
| ISBN 10 | 0819569232 |
| Title | Finding Pete |
| Author | Jill Hunting |
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| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Year published | 2009-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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