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This novella title is not in Litsy database. At the art museum, two scantily clad lovers are found early one morning asleep on the floor; the young woman almost afloat in yards of frothy wedding dress fabric…they told the arresting police that the door was open during the night and they walked right in…

BTW the tagged book is one of my favorite Allende books.
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Many. Those that stand out are those I got to listen to speak for a long time or share a meal or long conversation : Amy Lee-Tai , Jason Reynolds, Jazz Jennings, Yusef Salaam, Lindy West(had us in hysterics) I would love to meet Judy Blume ♥️.

“Henry looked up and down the empty avenue—no cars or trucks anywhere. No bicycles. No paperboys. No fruit sellers or fish buyers. No flower carts or noodle stands. The streets were vacant, empty—the way he felt inside. There was no one left.”

This is a worthy topic, but unfortunately a poor execution. The stories are piecemeal and disjointed. There is far too much telling and not enough showing - the graphic format was badly underutilised. The excessively small print in portions provided further friction to the reading process.

Read They Called Us Enemy (Takei) instead.

A story about a young Japanese girl who moved to te USA.

Finally sat down to read this this afternoon. And finished it in a few hours. I knew that the Japanese people were relegated to camps in ww2 USA, but reading about it hit really hard. This wasn‘t soemrhing we were taught in school, and it‘s something I wish I had known to teach my children when we were homeschooling all those years.

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Yes it‘s cliche to say that truth is stranger than fiction & yet…Truth is also more horrifying, heartbreaking, frustrating, & enraging…all of which is encapsulated in this outstanding YA historical fiction about the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII. I don‘t yet have all the words I need to write a well reasoned review because every time I think about what happened in the book/real life it makes me immeasurably sad. Excellent.

Thursday morning reading…

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