The Effects of the Vietnam War as Told by Author Jo Ann Snapp in Her New Novel The Pathway Home

October 27, 2012

The Pathway Home

This is a war story. Well, not really a war story but a story about the effects of war. Men who would never have thought of taking another human life received training to kill and then were thrown into a war zone. Kill or be killed? Although fiction, this story was driven by a very real event during the Vietnam War.

What happened to those peace loving men and women who came back home mentally changed and tried to fit back into their regular life again? What happened to the soldiers who returned so disfigured, so physically destroyed they would never fit into normal life? This is a story, set in a period between 1962 and 1980, of one such soldier.

Toi Gheh lay at death's door on a Vietnamese jungle pathway when found by a humble oriental woman and a little girl who nursed him back to health with compassion and Godly love. But neither could do anything about his disfigured body and they couldn't do anything about his amnesia, his inability to remember anything of his past except that of his faith in God.

Through a number of events and after a decade in the jungles of Cambodia, Toi Gheh finds his way back to the United States and begins the search for his identity with the help of Mark Nelson, a soldier injured at the tail end of the war activity in Vietnam. Toi and Mark begin a writing partnership, utilizing information from the investigation into Toi's past. In his condition of total disfigurement, he is not sure he wants to find a family, but he would like to have a real name again.

His faith has sustained him throughout the years since his accident, and though Mark also claims a belief in Christ, Toi has doubts about his full commitment by statements Mark has made.

Toi's goal is for Mark to surrender to God's plan. Mark's goal is to become a great writing success and find out Toi's real name. Toi and Mark have found what appears to be real evidence of Toi's identity when suddenly the whole investigation takes an unexpected turn.

The Pathway Home is available in paperback & E-book at:

http://www.amazon.com/author/joannsnapp

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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242589

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Jo Ann Snapp is an author of fiction from Arkansas. She has been writing books since she was around nine years old. After a long career in retail and logistics she has taken up the mantle to get some of her work out to readers. Her first book, a historical novel, A Reconciled Heart, was well received and she recently released Emily, a sequel to her first book.

Whether historical, contemporary, mysteries or romances all her writing is from a Christian perspective so you can be assured a clean read even if some of the subject matter is controversial. Some of her work is inspirational, some of her work is just plain good storytelling. To Jo a story is a story that needs to be told.
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