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Bezig met laden... Mercy Traindoor Rae Meadows
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This story was difficult to follow due to there being multiple characters and they were from different generations. So when the story jumped back and forth it took some time to realize what character was being talked about. It just was not well written. ( ) Look up the word 'mercy' in the dictionary and you will see it being described as " compassion shown to enemies or offenders in one's power" If that is how you, the reader feels, than these trains of children were truly MERCY TRAINS...why? Because they weren't necessarily orphans,but they were offensive perhaps due to the fact that most were street kids. Scrappy, dirty, hungry and tough , some with parents who were just too overwhelmed to care..... City kids sent to 'better lives' in the mid-west, shown as exhibits to get picked over... So .....this is a multi-generational story that was a good read, but could have been fleshed out a bit more. I wish the middle of the book had been solely focused on Violet who was one hell of a character i gotta say! I enjoyed this interwoven tale about three generations of one family. The oldest generation, Violet, was taken from Kentucky to NYC as a child with her barely capable mother. Violet's mother ended up giving her to a child welfare group that put children on trains bound for the west so they could have a better life. Violet's daughter, Iris, grew up as a model suburban wife and mother in the midwestern suburbs with no idea of her mother's past. Violet's granddaughter, Sam, discovers her grandmother's history as she is going through a box of family relics. It is interesting to see how the concerns of the members of this family go from survival to more philosophical problems of balancing child care and work. This is where I have you imagine this book being shorter at the beginning and longer at the end! I wish the author would have told the tale more from the orphan on the train and her life from there, instead of the life of her granddaughter. There are many books on the Orphan Trains, all very interesting. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A rich, luminous novel of three remarkable women connected across a century by a family secret and by the fierce brilliance of their love Samantha's mother has been dead almost a year when the box arrives on her doorstep. In it, she finds recipe cards, keepsakes, letters-relics of her mother Iris's past. But as Sam sifts through these family treasures, she uncovers evidence that her grandmother, Violet, had a much more difficult childhood then she could have ever imagined. And Sam, a struggling new mother herself, begins to see her own burdens in a completely different light. Moving from the tempered calm of contemporary Madison, Wisconsin to the seedy underbelly of early twentieth century New York, we come face to face with a haunting piece of America's past: From 1854 to 1929 orphan trains from New York transported 150,000 to 200,000 destitute, orphaned or abandoned children across the country to find homes on farms in the Midwest. Rae Meadows takes us on our own journey of discovery inMercy Train (originally published as Mothers & Daughters), an affecting and wonderfully woven novel about three generations of motherhood, family, and the surprising sacrifices we make for the people we love. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyWaarderingGemiddelde:
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