Books
June, 1987
Philip Caputo's novel Indian Country (Bantam) is about a Vietnam veteran who, years after the fact, cannot come home from the war. Christian Starkmann lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He drinks too much, picks fights and often ignores June, the good woman who wants to help him. As he finds himself tortured by increasingly realistic flashbacks ("some part of him had been in another dimension where terms such as past and present had no meaning"), his mental condition deteriorates. Wr...
