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   Who wrote Good Night Irene?

   • “Good Night, Irene,” a novel by Luis Alberto Urrea, sends two female volunteers to the Western Front. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Writing fiction about your parents can be a minefield. (Sorry again, Mom!)

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   What is Good Night Irene about?

   • “Good Night, Irene is a beautiful, heartfelt novel that celebrates the intense power and durability of female friendship while shining a light on one of the fascinating lost women’s stories of World War II.

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   Is Good Night Irene based on a true story?

   • "Urrea bends a fertile bough from his own family tree in Good Night Irene, a sweeping novel loosely based on his mother's experiences as a plucky, rebellious Red Cross volunteer with the so-called Donut Dollies on the battlefields of WWII, and the love stories — both romantic and platonic — that followed her home."

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   Is Irene a good book?

   • It was the Great Unburdening." As befits a contemporary war novel, Good Night, Irene is morally nuanced: It doesn't turn away from scenes of random violence inflicted by our "boys" and it also acknowledges the traumas endured by many who served and survived.

   'Good Night, Irene' review: A women-centered WWII novel from Luis ... …

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   In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit.

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   May 22, 2023 · Good Night, Irene is a departure: drawing on his mother's journals and scrapbooks and the spotty information that's survived about the Clubmobile corps, Urrea has written a female-centric World...

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   May 25, 2023 · In “Good Night, Irene,” Luis Alberto Urrea, who is best known for “The Devil’s Highway” — his devastating account of 14 men who died attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border —...

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   May 30, 2023 · Good Night, Irene: A Novel. Hardcover – May 30, 2023. This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. “Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . .

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   Jun 4, 2024 · Urrea newest book, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR).

   • 4.5/5 (3.5K)

   • Author: Luis Alberto Urrea

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   May 30, 2023 · Using the little-known true story of women who worked behind the front lines for the Red Cross during World War II, Luis Alberto Urrea weaves a novel about the enduring bonds, devastating losses, and heroism of ordinary people who put their lives on the line for freedom.

   • Author: Luis Alberto Urrea

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   A New York Times bestselling novel inspired by the author's mother's Red Cross service in World War II. Follow Irene Woodward and her friends as they face danger and hardship in Europe, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald.