{"id":9218,"date":"2010-11-15T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2010-11-12T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T17:44:20","slug":"lotus-eaters-by-tatjana-soli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/lotus-eaters-by-tatjana-soli\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2245939\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9367\" title=\"lotus eaters\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lotus-eaters1.jpg?resize=183%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>In the searing debut novel <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2245939\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Lotus Eaters<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0author Tatjana Soli captures the devastation of war-torn Vietnam from 1963-1975, but also beautifully balances it with complex relationships and passionate romance.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Adams has dropped out of college to come to Vietnam to work as\u00a0a freelance\u00a0photographer and to find answers about\u00a0her brother&#8217;s death.\u00a0 She soon falls in love with a charismatic Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer, who takes her under his wing.\u00a0 As a female covering combat in this age of new-found womens liberation, Helen&#8217;s gender draws as much attention as does her cover-quality work.\u00a0 But Helen,\u00a0 just like the lotus eaters in Homer&#8217;s<strong><em> Odyssey<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0finds herself\u00a0unwilling or unable to leave, even\u00a0in the final chaotic days of the U.S. military&#8217;s evacuation from the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s romance\u00a0(with two very different men) &#8212; \u00a0there&#8217;s danger (with every mine-filled step) and there&#8217;s that\u00a0anxious tension\u00a0that keeps you hoping for their survival\u00a0right up to the very end.\u00a0\u00a0The book is thoroughly researched (it includes a lengthy bibliography) with a perspective that only 40 plus years of history could provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the searing debut novel The Lotus Eaters,\u00a0author Tatjana Soli captures the devastation of war-torn Vietnam from 1963-1975, but also beautifully balances it with complex relationships and passionate romance. 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