After The War Was Over is a languid and wandering coda to A Bright Shining Lie, as Sheehan tours the newly opening, but still very poor and very communist country in 1989. Interviews with prominent Vietnamese are interspersed with his own reminiscence about the war, and about what going back to these sites was like. There isn't really much here: most of the people he interviews are plucky entreprenuers who survived the war to set up their own small business, and who have no hard feelings towards Americans. The communist bureaucracy is stubborn and occasionally cruel, but managed to step back from the brink of absolute collapse in 1986. Nearly 30 years on from the renormalization of relationships between Vietnam and the West, this book is as much a historical artifact as Sheehan's reporting.