Love Beneath the Napalm

The Notre Dame Review

T H E NOT R E DA ME R E V IE W BOOK P R I Z E “In his collection Love beneath the Napalm, James Redwood chronicles the choices made by those who survived the Vietnam War and their ensuing consequences. These stories, unusual and unexpected, recount how characters shape and construct their intimate and social landscapes in the wake of conflict. These are important stories that explore a time that is receding into historical memory. Redwood is an astute writer, and these stories are an impressive debut.” — SH A RON DILWORTH, author of Year of the Ginkgo “James D. Redwood’s LovebeneaththeNapalm is a beautifully written and very human testament to a people who suffered untold horrors during the Vietnam War. A haunting and very powerful collection of stories.” —JA MES C A R L NELSON, author of The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War and Five Lieutenants “As the escalation of the Vietnam conflict nears its golden anniversary, James Redwood celebrates in quiet sepia, reflecting all the complexities of the war in this shoebox full of grainy and glowing human portraits.” —ROBERT A NDERSON, author of Ice Age “Love beneath the Napalm recasts the fullness of Vietnam’s suffocating and cruel trouble. The stench of the war’s horror is given a freshly enraptured perspective that never wanders far from the witches’ breath of the violence and lies still calling to sorrows no matter how dispersed. The only witnesses who are ‘truly free,’ as the author states in these quietly alarming and necessary stories that really do take hold, are wind and water.” —DAV ID M ATLIN, author of A HalfMan Dreaming and Up Fish Creek Road and Other Stories J A M E S D. R E DWO O D is a professor of law at Albany Law School. He taught English in South Vietnam from 1972 to 1974 and returned briefly before the fall of Saigon in April 1975. As a practicing lawyer, he has worked for a law firm in San Francisco and for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. Since 1993 he has published short stories based on his experiences in Vietnam in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, North Dakota Quarterly, TriQuarterly, and the Notre Dame Review. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 • undpress.nd.edu ...