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Tunnel Rat
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Tunnel Rat is a raw, arresting journey that spans three continents—from the jungles of South Vietnam and streets of Tokyo in the late 1960s to San Francisco and the Santa Cruz Mountains from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Danny attempts to give his lifelong friend Steve, a Vietnam tunnel fighter, a moment of peace decades after the war. Alongside his sister Clare, who was once married to Steve, Danny navigates the devastating legacy of combat as they confront the ghosts of what happened overseas and at home.
A powerful meditation on grief and survival, Tunnel Rat pays tribute to the families and friends who enter another kind of war when soldiers return.
ISBN : 978-1-80603-189-4
Scheduled: 08/10/2026
Pages : 276
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Judith Shepherd
Judith completed most of her undergraduate studies in Tokyo, Japan. She went on to become an interpreter for the United States Information Agency (U.S.I.A.) in Osaka before visiting South Vietnam as a friend of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), in Danang, VN, at the height of the Vietnam War. After receiving a Master’s and Doctorate in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, she designed and ran a PTSD Assessment and Support Group program in the Refugee Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital, an endeavor that deeply inspired her to write about war trauma.
