The Sea of Trees

The author is a winner of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship.

In what was Indochina, subsequently Vietnam, one girl's war takes place. Little from the outside world intrudes, there is hardly any news from Europe, merely the immediate presence of the invading Japanese, and the distant hope of rescue, the certainty of suffering.In what was Indochina, subsequently Vietnam, one girl's war takes place. Little from the outside world intrudes; there is hardly any news from Europe, merely the immediate presence of the invading Japanese, and the distant hope of rescue, the certainty of suffering.