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GARDNER'S Plum Wine (Book); DAVIS, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-; TEACHERS; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; FICTION; 21ST century (Literary period)

The article recommends the book Gardner's Plum Wine by Angela Davis. It is a multi-layered, gorgeously written novel about an American teacher in Japan during the Vietnam War. Through memoirs she inherits from a friend, she learns of the horrors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath, compromising her relationship with her lover. It took the author 10 years to write it.