Laila Ibrahim
Auteur van Yellow Crocus
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- Geslacht
- female
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- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Whittier, California
Oakland, California
Berkeley, California, USA - Opleiding
- Mills College
- Beroepen
- founder of Woolsey Children's School
director Children and Family Ministries, UU
birth doula - Relaties
- Rinda (wife)
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- Laila Ibrahim spent much of her career as a preschool director, and that, coupled with her experiences as a teacher and her education in developmental psychology and attachment theory, provided ample fodder for the story of Mattie and Lisbeth in Yellow Crocus. In addition to being a writer, Laila is a birth doula and Director of Children and Family Ministries at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland. She lives in a small co-housing community in Berkeley, CA, with her wife, Rinda, and two daughters. She is hard at work on her second novel.
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Mei Ling’s parents arrange for her to marry a Chinese widow based in California. In order to facilitate immigrating to the U.S., she must pose as his first wife and mother of his young son. They marry in China and then take a boat to California. On the boat, she studies the details of his life and the woman she is supposed to be. Knowing that one mistake would send her back to China she does her best to be the wife and mother she is expected to be.
I thought this book was fascinating. I’ve heard about paper son’s, and the lengths Chinese families would go to immigrate to America, but it was enlightening to read a novel about it. The book was well paced and the characters were dynamic and well rounded. Overall, 4 out of 5 stars.… (meer)
I thought this book was fascinating. I’ve heard about paper son’s, and the lengths Chinese families would go to immigrate to America, but it was enlightening to read a novel about it. The book was well paced and the characters were dynamic and well rounded. Overall, 4 out of 5 stars.… (meer)
Enjoyable story
Endearing characters, so glad she was able to escape and have the life she wanted, looking forward to book two.
Endearing characters, so glad she was able to escape and have the life she wanted, looking forward to book two.
This book is a heartwarming story about the daughter of a slave holding family in the South and one of the slaves in her household who nurses her from infancy. It was a very fast, very easy, enjoyable read, but I definitely felt like I was reading a book aimed at young adults (even though it isn't marketed that way). It's written very simplistically, and oddly, for a story about slavery, everything seems to end on a positive note. In some ways, that was refreshing, but it also seemed a little odd and unrealistic for a book about slavery to be so "happily ever after". Nonetheless, the storytelling was good, it had some good moral lessons, and I never felt like putting the book down, so I think it deserves more than three stars.
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Mattie and Lisbeth (Elizabeth) form a very strong bond as Lisbeth is growing up. Mattie learns that her husband and her young son have run from the plantation and Mattie does not know if they are safe or not. Mattie soon finds that she is pregnant with a second child and Lisbeth helps her with a name for that child, Jordan.
There is much affection between these two and their lives take separate turns.… (meer)