Questions About An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

by Ann Rinaldi

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Is this book a nonfiction novel?

Bridget A. No, but it is a historical fiction book.

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Does anyone have any An Unlikely Friendship book club questions?

Sara
1) All of the switching from one tense and style to another makes the book disjointed and seem like it wasn't properly edited. Why not just continue t…more
1) All of the switching from one tense and style to another makes the book disjointed and seem like it wasn't properly edited. Why not just continue the two stories to the point where they meet instead of adding awkward bits at the end of each of the main sections?
2) Shouldn't the prologue and epilogue be written in the same style as one another? Why is one written as historical fiction and the other as a factual account?
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