Christian historical fiction

All Manner of Things

by Susie Finkbeiner

In 1967 Michigan, eighteen-year-old Annie Jacobson watches her older brother Mike leave for Vietnam as an Army medic. His absence unsettles the entire family, and the unexpected return of the father who abandoned them twelve years earlier adds another strain to their small-town life. Letters from the war and trouble at home force Annie, her mother, and her brothers to reconsider anger, loyalty, grief, and the possibility of forgiveness. Intimate and compassionate, this coming-of-age novel suits readers who enjoy 1960s settings, close family dramas, wartime correspondence, faith-inflected healing, and stories about national upheaval reaching an ordinary household.