When Reason Fails

About the Book

The year is 1970. Impressionable twenty-year-old Jimmy Cramer returns to the safety and security of his family’s South Dakota farm after a tour of duty in Viet Nam. To his younger brother Billy; his parents; his best friend Larry; and his girl friend Sandra; he returns a decorated war hero. But why doesn’t he ever willingly talk about how or why he was decorated? Could he return to his home and family and friends from the swamps of Viet Nam as the same person he was before he left? In this touching and often compelling novel of war, American youth, love, and compassion, we follow the plight of this reluctant war hero who struggles to pick up the pieces of his life that the war interrupted. Can he adjust, or will the Viet Nam conflict claim another casualty?

About the Author

Matthew V. Schofield, Jr. is a native South Dakotan who graduated from Black Hills State College in Spearfish, SD with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education in 1971. He quit the high school teaching profession after one year, but has returned to it after a 27-year absence.