Life Dust
Book Feature - Life Dust by Pam Webber
HBL Note: LIFE DUST is Pam Webber’s third historical novel, though historical purists might bristle that is set just 50 years ago. Contemporary historical? Recent historical? Whatever you want to call it, life then barely resembles life now so it is definitely historical to me. Not familiar with Pam Webber? This novel is being compared to Swimming Naked by Laura Branchflower and The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros. So if you’ve read and enjoyed either of those titles, I think you’ll enjoy LIFE DUST. Or vice versa!
LIFE DUST is set during the Vietnam War, and follows childhood soul mates Nettie and Andy. While Andy is deployed, Nettie sees an inappropriate interaction between her nursing supervisor and a surgeon. Andy and Nettie are worlds apart, but they are both trying to navigate their way back to one another while dealing with the best and worst of humanity. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Life Dust by Pam Webber
Book Feature - Life Dust by Pam Webber
From the publisher:
Nettie and Andy have been soul mates since childhood. While planning their wedding, Andy receives orders from the Army to deploy immediately to South Vietnam for a year.
Anxious about Andy’s safety, Nettie dives into her work as a nursing intern in the hospital emergency room. When she inadvertently walks in on a nursing supervisor and surgeon during a late-night tryst, the vengeful lovers initiate a campaign to end her career before it starts. Nettie’s only respite is an elderly patient who has everything money can buy—except the one thing he wants.
In Southeast Asia, Andy is leading a long-range reconnaissance squad in an unforgiving jungle when he receives orders to escort a high-ranking female freedom fighter, Bien, to a clandestine meeting with an enemy officer who wants to defect. Previously raped, beaten, and left for dead by North Vietnamese soldiers, Bien is suspicious of the enemy officer’s motives, but she also thinks he may be the younger brother her attackers conscripted into their army as a child. Andy, meanwhile, believes his unit is walking into a trap that could cost them everything.
Struggling to survive in different worlds, Nettie and Andy navigate the best and worst of human nature as they try to find their way back to each other.
