Summary Of Something About Ann By J. Everett Prewitt

Thank you J. Everett Prewitt for writing Something About Ann: Stories of Love and Brotherhood so people like me who haven't experienced war, can know how it affected those who fought. These twelve short stories talk about black men who fought the war in Vietnam and Cambodia and the effects it had on them. The men lived a hard life before Vietnam, and these stories tell how each man adapts to civilian life after he returned from the war. I don't know if these stories were based on true experiences, but J. Everett Prewitt wrote them in such a way that I can believe they were true. This book could only have been written by someone who had experienced the war, the people, and the effects of having been there. It is painful to know and feel what these black men had to go through to survive life in Vietnam and then on the streets of America afterward.
With a hardened warrior's heart, she still had the fight in her. She sought revenge against the enemy who had killed her fellow soldiers and had injured her in Cambodia. Even though Trung was married, she fell in love with a man who helped her through her sadness by sharing quiet times together. She found the enemy, but in the confusion, she didn't kill him; she ran away instead.
The author intertwined these twelve short stories together with a common thread; each of the main characters were war veterans of Vietnam or Cambodia. He often used a character or scene from a previous story and weaved a glimpse of them into his next story. I expected to see Ann (Trung) pop up somewhere in another story; perhaps she did anonymously. He brought the stories together in unusual ways, which I enjoyed. It was like reading twelve different stories that were really only fragments of one story of how people's paths cross in