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THIS is the kind of historical fiction we need. (Even has a bit of #metoo.) Such an important book.
Having just finished reading an ARC of Ruth Behar’s Letters From Cuba, I was struck by the similarities between these books, although distant in time and place. Both girls, Esther and Hanna, yearn to become dress designers and are accomplished seamstresses. Both girls are motherless (although one is only temporarily motherless) and help their fathers to find success through their skill with needles. Both girls are faced with prejudice and cruelty, but also find the kind people in their communiti
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Another important historical message for readers. Hit home reading it these past two days.
Well researched, excellent sense of time and place. So needed for this generation.
Hanna, a biracial Chinese/European girl, experiences on the prairie were quite different than Laura Ingalls Wilder's. Park does an excellent job of highlighting the false narratives about the Chinese and exposing how the Native Americans were treated by the European settlers.
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