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Three years after the Dogfight and the war that followed, Eddie Birdlace returns from Vietnam with scars he can’t hide and ghosts he can’t outrun. Home doesn’t feel like home, and the silence there is too loud. On a whim—or maybe something deeper—he finds himself back in San Francisco, standing outside the café where he last saw Rose Fenny.
Rose has grown into her skin in the years since he left, but the memory of Eddie never fully let her go. When he walks back into her life, broken and searching, she offers him a seat, a sandwich, and a second chance.
Set against the backdrop of a changing America and the swell of the anti-war movement, this is a story of reconnection, healing, and the quiet, steady kind of love that doesn’t need to shout to be heard.