Triage

“Elisa Speranza has written a fascinating, gripping and profoundly moving novel that takes its place in the pantheon of the literature of war. Of course, it is about so much more.” 

- LUIS ALBERTO URREA, author of Good Night, Irene

"A novel that made me feel the weight of grief, and the quiet miracle of finding your way back. Unflinching, intimate, and deeply human — Triage is a novel that stays with you."

-MARTHA HALL KELLY, NY Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls and The Martha’s Vineyard Beach and Book Club

“Elisa Speranza is back with this intimate tale of one woman's struggle to reckon with her time as a combat nurse during WWII. Triage places readers in the middle of the action and depicts the courageous work done by an unsung generation of women. In this brilliantly written book, Speranza asks whether deep wounds can ever truly heal. Fast-paced and full of unforgettable characters, readers will want to share Triage with their book clubs.”

-MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN, author of The American Daughters

“Speranza delivers what only the best historical fiction can: a story that immerses us in the specifics of an exceptional era while remaining just as relevant to our own. At once visceral and finely crafted, Triage pulls us in from page one and doesn’t let go.”

- ALLISON ALSUP, author of Foreign Seed; Creative Director, New Orleans Writers Workshop

“If you think war ends when the shooting stops, Triage will remind you what lingers. Unflinching, compassionate, and utterly absorbing, Elisa M. Speranza writes with a field medic's clarity and a storyteller’s nerve.

- GREG COPE WHITE, author of The Pink Marine

“Triage gives us a moment by moment perspective of the men and women forced to make the life and death decisions of battlefield triage and the rare perspective of the soul wrenching after effects they suffer. It is a beautifully told story of love and survival during and in the aftermath of war.”

– RON CAPPS, author of Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years and Founder, The Veterans Writing Project

“Elisa Speranza's beautiful and heart-rending story shows us the complex lives of those nurses who fought with astonishing technical skill for the survival of their patients as the battle raged around them and then helped to reconstruct their lives beyond survival in war's aftermath.”      

- DR. EMILY MAYHEW, historian and author of Wounded: The Long Journey Home