Authors

Karen Spears Zacharias

Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together

A daughter’s memoir of losing her father in Vietnam. The tragedy breaks her family down. Her mother retreats into work a and a string of boyfriends. Her brother delves in drugs. Friends eventually abandon her. Her unwed pregnancy ends in an abortion. But she survives and eventually thrives.