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Amaryllis

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Amaryllis is a poignant and beautifully written story both teens and their parents will connect with. Though set during the Vietnam War, the struggles facing the main characters continue to ring true today: the oftentimes painful transition from child to adult, the battle to redefine one's self in a world whose boundaries no longer make sense, love and loss, endings and beginnings. The voices are genuine and will continue to speak to you long after you have finished the book. A powerful story.

This book offers a unique perspective to young readers on the Vietnam conflict and how it affected their parents' generation. I would recommend it not only for baby boomers to remember the emotions of that time, but also to their children to better understand what their parents went through. Very timely book!

I loved Amaryllis!!! I also remember the Vietnam era. I felt I could hear Franks voice in his letters to Jimmy. Craig Crist- Evans captured the helpless feeling of Franks questioned existance while fighting his demons.
Hopefully, a POW story will follow!!!!

Growing up in the time of the Vietnam war and growing up in Florida, I can totally relate to this book. It was, indeed, a time of great turmoil in this country and also brought to the surface many family's individual struggles. Crist-Evans gives us a touching insight into one family's attempts to wrestle with their own personal demons as well as the demons of their country and times. Got a little misty at the end.

This book is a great read for teens and their parents! Both will get hooked on the writing style and the communication between father and son. It's great how the two brothers stay in contact through the troubles and confusions! I would definately recommend this book to you!

This book caught my attention when I saw the title. I read the first page and I was hooked! This author has a great writing style. He also attracts people of my age with his writing style. If you want to read other books by Craig Crist-Evans please check out Moon Over Tennessee!

This is a book not only for young readers, but for their parents. Amaryllis took me back to the world as it was when I was a young reader - the emotions of fear and confusion over a war we didn't understand and the love between two brothers trying to stay connected through it all. Not only is this a very timely story, but it is also a way for today's young readers to understand one of their parents' generation's most emotional periods.

I found the little things like the F-U lizards funny. They really sounded like that. I remember the 1st time I heard one. It was on a cold dark rainy night (can't see your hand in front of you even if you are touching your noise) on guard duty at a fire base 40 miles out in the middle of knowwhere. There were a few junkies in my units. Probably more than I knew. I remember one guy named Walker. Guys would start junkie pools and put in a $1 and pick a date when you thought he'd O.D. by. I never really thought of all the families that had kids killed and what they went through. I had a brother 10 years younger than me. Had I been KIA or MIA it would have effected my brother the same way it did Jimmy. My brother & I are very close and talk to each other every day. The Vietnam war was a real waste of time and lives. It is a sad part of US history. To bad we can't learn from history.