Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
From Bobbie Ann Mason
In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It's a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town.
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
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