Press Reviews

• Washington Post

  For Rouenna is about everything: war and remembrance, how we invent our 'selves' and why; why we kill ourselves-or live. I was dazzled by this book

• New York Daily News

  Nunez fashions the Vietnam novel we didn't know we were missing

• O, the Oprah Magazine

  Beautifully written ... mesmerizing ... enthralling

• Village Voice

  Her spare voice ... gives even the simplest descriptions of place and weather unsettling force and beauty

• San Francsico Chronicle

  An entirely different kind of war novel...Nunez's Vietnam is assembled with a long lens and crafted in her spare, gorgeous prose....What emerges is something that feels like truth

• Vogue

  Resonant and provocative