Flowers of the Dinh Ba Forest

In this novel of war, love, camaraderie, and betrayal Vietnam veteran Clark centers his plot around a search for a rare orchid in the height of the Vietnam War. Clark’s characters—both Vietnamese and American, both men and women—are painfully aware that nothing seems to make sense in the war, that one might as well trek off in search of a deep jungle orchid. It’s this very nonsensicality that forges them—foe and friend—into an insane respect, an insane hatred for one another.