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Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Digging to Indochina by Connie Biewald. Digging to Indochina by Connie Biewald. Seventeen-year-old Ivy MacKenzie is consumed by bitterness over the tragic death of her Vietnam veteran father.
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Desperate to break free of a family that doesn't understand her and a small town that suffocates her, Ivy runs away with Gil Thompson-a stranger who shows her a passion she's never known and a violent danger she never saw coming. Ivy's younger brother Bryan has a Seventeen-year-old Ivy MacKenzie is consumed by bitterness over the tragic death of her Vietnam veteran father. Ivy's younger brother Bryan has a tender heart, conflicting memories, and a fierce loyalty to his family. Their disengaged, high-strung mother Carol parents as best she knows how while coping with her own lingering heartbreak and entering into a new relationship.
Though their voices and struggles are their own, each of the MacKenzies grapples with loss and disappointment and yearns for love and belonging. But this book is not about public politics. It's about family politics, which can be as deadly in their way.
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The author casts a cool eye on the relations of the nuclear pun intended family, and as the book progresses her voice gains more and more authority, with the result that we are convinced of the truth of her fiction. I may not have found this novel if I hadn't had personal knowledge of the writer, but I am very, very glad that I did.
Joan Henley, Bethesda, MD. I can't remember the last time a book moved me so much. A wonderful depiction of teenagers, rebellion, love, and redemption. I particularly liked the way the author juxtaposed the words of the teens with their unspoken feelings. As the mother of a year-old boy, this book really spoke to me.
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I am eager to see this author's next book. Grady Harp Top Contributor: Connie Biewald is a very fine writer. She is skilled in drawing characters, situations that are palpably realistic, and in pulling off dialogue that is cogent, poignant, and beautifully crafted.
She successfully relates the disintegration of a small family unable to move out of each member's self to find the greater goal of belonging and knows well how to describe the most lurid conditions of life gone wrong. For this reader the problem begins with the title. We are introduced to the fact that the MacKenzie family's problems all relate to the important loss of the father figure Johnny, a Vietnam veteran who managed to survive the hell of the war only to return home an alcoholic and die an accidental death, leaving behind a wife Carol, a devoted daughter Ivy, and an emotionally isolated son Bryan.
Had Biewald kept this focus of the emotionally destroyed Vietnam veteran and the aftershock of the war central to her story, then this novel would have been cohesive and far more significant. Instead what we have is yet another pulp fiction type dysfunctional family: Ivy plays pool, is seduced by smarmy Gil, runs away from the home that is not conducive to love, becomes pregnant by her abusive boyfriend, returns home to a mother who finally remarries a shop teacher Neal from high school and to a brother who still can't figure out what he wants in life outside of his harmonica and guitar.
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Both mother and daughter are simultaneously pregnant: Ivy's son Mac is born and Carol's daughter is stillborn. Gil returns after a year in jail and causes yet more turmoil than while he was away. The title would indicate that the family dissolution was due to the loss of the father, home from his tour in Indochina.
You promised us all the fortune cookies we could eat once we got there. You said we'd see tigers and water buffalo and rice paddies. We'd wear big straw hats and walk barefoot. She remembered how she'd run to the yard when her mother told her her dad had died, to the hole in the dirt. She hadn't made it to Indochina then. Now the hole was filled in.
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And that is where Biewald loses us: But there is little to redeem any of them.