Teeing Off

In Teeing Off, innocence meets with adulthood in a coming-of-age story told against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The heroine—bookish but immature—struggles with the inevitable chaos of adolescence, a death in the family, and a growing awareness of how the war in Southeast Asia might impact those around her. For solace as much as protection from an adult world gone awry, she is drawn to the game of golf, and the serenely ordered setting of eighteen numbered holes. Ironically, it is on th...