Tom Bissell is the author of eight previous books, most recently The Disaster Artist, and has been awarded the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He writes frequently for Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker.

Veteran Jack Bissell only deepened the abyss between him and his son Tom when he talked about the Vietnam war. But, when a magazine editor sends the two back to Vietnam for a story, Tom reopens the conversation and confronts his father's past and the man that had seemed impossibly remote.
Part history, memoir, and travelogue, Tom Bissell's is a haunting, riveting exploration of the war's personal, political, and cultural impact from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the wake of the conflict and a wise reckoning of the bond forged between fathers and sons.

A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.