Surprising and moving, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries is a personal favorite of James Ivory. It is also one of his most interesting experiments with narrative and point-of-view. Each of the novelistic sections is structured around the perspective of a member of an American family (modeled on that of World War II veteran James Jones) struggling to acclimate both to Paris and New England. The accumulation of the interrelated vignettes eloquently conveys the many nuances of the generational shifts of the 1960s and of expatriate life.