The Women

by Kristin Hannah · 2024

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of *The Nightingale* and *The Four Winds*, comes *The Women*, a sweeping historical novel set in the turbulent 1960s. Twenty‑year‑old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath, raised on idyllic Coronado Island, hears that “women can be heroes, too.” When her brother ships to Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps. In the chaos of war she confronts brutal combat injuries, the loss of her brother, and the fierce bonds of sisterhood with fellow nurses. Returning home, she faces a divided, hostile America that refuses to recognize her service. Hannah’s lyrical prose illuminates the forgotten sacrifices of women in the Vietnam War, blending an intimate coming‑of‑age portrait with an epic tale of a nation divided.