Luis Alberto Urrea, who discovered his mother's untold World War II story after her death, joins the L.A. Times Book Club next month to discuss “Good Night, Irene,” a bestselling novel inspired by his mother’s wartime secrets.
served during World War II, an era memorialized in books, film, monuments and our collective imagination.
Urrea’s mother never returned home to New York after the war; instead she started a new life in California. And she never talked about her past. She kept an old Army footlocker at home but told her young son never to open it.Urrea writes in an essay for Time magazineUrrea decided to research his mother’s WWII experiences after her death and was surprised at the scarce information available about the Donut Dollies and their service.
Phyllis McLaughlin de Urrea with troops, volunteers and a new Clubmobile at Glatton airbase in England.
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