Overview

When the ghosts of war won't stay buried, a former Army nurse must find a way to heal-or risk losing everything. In 1951 New Orleans, Laura Marino works as a nurse at Charity Hospital. She's been home from World War II for six years, but peacetime has brought its own challenges. She's frustrated at work, and her childless marriage to Nicholas, a surgeon she met in the Army, is strained. Laura is devastated when news arrives that Frances, her best friend from the front, has taken her own life. Turning to the wartime journal she has kept hidden away, Laura is plunged back into memories of the bonds forged amid chaos on the front lines of North Africa, during the siege of Anzio, and at a refugee camp in Italy. While her husband takes on an overseas assignment, Laura wrestles with her grief and guilt over Frances' death. Then she meets Boyer, a wounded veteran who shares her pain. Their connection is intense-and dangerous, threatening to upend her life entirely. Triage is an intimate portrait of a woman's hard-won journey through love, loss, and a quest for redemption.

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""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 ""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, Elisa 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 ""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, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls and The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club ""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 aftereffects 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 ""Magnificent! This book is so captivating; it grabbed me on the first page. I was riveted and could not put it down. The characters' challenges and emotions were so raw and real. The challenges and pain of war were so well described. Truly an amazing and wonderful book."" --MICHELE VISCONTI, Ph.D, nurse, health administrator, and policy consultant ""I was hooked from the first page and couldn't put it down for two days. It's rare for a non-veteran author who wasn't embedded with troops at some point to capture veteran voices, but as a veteran myself, I can confidently say Speranza nailed it. Moreover, she brings to life the unfortunately timeless stories of women veterans that are too often left untold. To this day, there is an assumption that women veterans didn't go through what their male counterparts did, and I love that there will be a book out there telling this story. Triage is a must-read."" LISA TOURTELOT, (USMC, 2009-2014)

Author Information

Elisa M. Speranza is the author of two historical novels, Triage (2026) and The Italian Prisoner (2022), a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She is board chair and an instructor for the nonprofit New Orleans Writers Workshop and has been a featured author at the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, the Louisiana Book Festival, Islanders Write, and the Salem LitFest. She is the co-founder of the Washashores Writers Collective on Martha's Vineyard and writes ""The Bricklayer's Daughter"" on Substack. Originally from Boston, Elisa lives in New Orleans and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit: www.elisamariesperanza.com

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