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The reason you're alive : a novel / Matthew Quick.

By: Publisher: New York : Harper Avenue, 2017Edition: First Canadian editionDescription: 226 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781443448093 (paperback)
Other title:
  • Reason you are alive
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
Summary: Vietnam War veteran David Granger is taken to the hospital after he wraps his BMW around a tree. Medical tests reveal David had a brain tumor that he blames on the U.S. government for exposing him to Agent Orange during the war. As he recovers from brain surgery, he repeats the name of a Native American soldier he served with, Clayton Fire Bear, whom David had disciplined harshly. After being discharged from the hospital, David is helped by best friend Sue, a Vietnamese America woman, to reconnect with his distant son, Hank, and his seven-year-old granddaughter, Ella. As he finds peace with his family-even moving in with them-the aging vet also seeks to make amends with Clayton Fire Bear by returning a stolen ceremonial knife that he had given to his now-deceased wife.
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC QUIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001076810

Vietnam War veteran David Granger is taken to the hospital after he wraps his BMW around a tree. Medical tests reveal David had a brain tumor that he blames on the U.S. government for exposing him to Agent Orange during the war. As he recovers from brain surgery, he repeats the name of a Native American soldier he served with, Clayton Fire Bear, whom David had disciplined harshly. After being discharged from the hospital, David is helped by best friend Sue, a Vietnamese America woman, to reconnect with his distant son, Hank, and his seven-year-old granddaughter, Ella. As he finds peace with his family-even moving in with them-the aging vet also seeks to make amends with Clayton Fire Bear by returning a stolen ceremonial knife that he had given to his now-deceased wife.

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