The bestselling novel and deeply affecting story of a young girl who comes to terms with her father's death in vietnam two decades earlier in the summer of 1984, the war in vietnam came home to sam hughes, whose father w...The bestselling novel and deeply affecting story of a young girl who comes to terms with her father's death in vietnam two decades earlier in the summer of 1984, the war in vietnam came home to sam hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed.