Indian Country
“Indian Country” by Philip Caputo is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on March 9, 2004. This 432-page novel presents a profound narrative centered on Christian Starkmann and his boyhood friend, Bonny George, an Ojibwa Indian. The story traces their journey from the wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the jungles of Vietnam, where they serve together as soldiers. After the war, Christian grapples with the loss of Bonny and the impact of his experiences on his life and family.
Readers will find a deep exploration of the psychological aftermath of war, as Christian struggles with haunting memories and the challenges of his marriage to June, a dedicated social worker. The narrative delves into themes of friendship, trauma, and the quest for reconciliation with the past. Caputo’s work reflects on the complexities of identity and the enduring effects of combat, making it a significant contribution to literary fiction.
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Indian Country is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience.
Christian Starkmann follows his boyhood friend, an Ojibwa Indian called Bonny George, from the wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where they roamed, hunted and fished in their youths, to the wilderness of Vietnam, where they serve as soldiers in the same platoon. After returning home from the war, his friend buried on the battlefield he left behind, Christian begins to make a life for himself. Yet years later, although he is happily married to June, a good-hearted social worker, and has two daughters, Christian is still fighting–with the searing memories of combat, with the paranoid visions that are clouding his marriage and threatening his career, and most of all with the ghost of Bonny George, who haunts his dreams and presses him to come to terms with a secret so powerful it could destroy everything he has built.
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