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MRS. LIEUTENANT is told from the point-of-view of four new officers’ wives in the spring of 1970 during the Vietnam War.

Each of these four women has her own cultural and geographic identity, and to become a proper officer’s wife she must learn to accept and get along with the other new Mrs. Lieutenants.

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Or read the beginning of each woman’s journey:

SHARON, a Jewish anti-war protester who fell in love with an ROTC cadet

KIM, a Southern Baptist whose husband is intensely jealous

DONNA, a Puerto Rican who grew up in an enlisted man’s family

WENDY, a Southern black whose parents have sheltered her from the brutal reality of racism in America

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