Laila Ibrahim
Auteur van Yellow Crocus
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- 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)
- Korte biografie
- 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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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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Golden Poppies (referring to the California state flower) is a historical fiction book that takes place in Oakland, CA, in the 1860s. I didn't know this book was part of a series, but it was good on its own. It follows the lives of several families of different color that are intertwined by blood, trying to make a better life for themselves after the end of the Civil War. I found the characters likable and the story heartfelt and entertaining.
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- 4.0
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- 5
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)