Moving between Honolulu, Jakarta and Saigon, against the historical backdrop of the final withdrawal from Vietnam, this novel is a bitingly funny, cumulatively devastating post-mortem of our national mores and institutions. A U. S. Senator, his wife, senatorial groupies and international arms dealing intersect with one another in this blistering indictment of American amnesia | Democracy by Joan Didion, Paperback | Indigo Chapters