By:
Bobbie Ann Mason
Grade Level:
In her novel In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason (1985) tells the story of a young woman’s quest to find her own identity as she investigates details of the Vietnam War. Mason writes a realistic account of life in the mid-1980’s for a seventeen year-old Kentuckian and of her journey to find answers to her questions about won Mason includes vivid details about attitudes toward the Vietnam War, the way people speak and behave, and the thoughts of o young women who is coming-of-age.