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A Hundred Years of Happiness is a courageous novel that explores the pain and repercussions of the Viet Nam War on two families today. Nicole Seitz writes with keen insight and compassion as the past collides with the present, and her characters must face the choices they made nearly a lifetime ago.

— Maryann McFadden, author of The Richest Season

Overview of A Hundred Years of Happiness
Coming March 3, 2009!

A beautiful young woman. An American soldier. A war-torn country. Nearly forty years of silence.

Now, two daughters search for the truth they hope will set them free and the elusive peace their parents have never found.

In the South Carolina Lowcountry, a young mother named Katherine Ann is struggling to help her tempestuous father, by plunging into a world of secrets he never talks about. A fry cook named Lisa is trying desperately to reach her grieving Vietnamese mother, who has never fully adjusted to life in the States. And somewhere far away, a lost soul named Ernest is drifting, treading water, searching for what he lost on a long-ago mountain.

They’re all longing for connection. For the war that touched them to finally end. For their hundred years of happiness at long last to begin.

From the beloved author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass and Trouble the Water comes this generous story of family, war, loss and longing . . . of the ways we hide from those we love, and the ways that love finds us anyway.