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Bezig met laden... The Girls in the Stilt House (editie 2021)door Kelly Mustian (Auteur)
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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. Very good story of 2 unlikely companions living together in the deep south in the 20's. Amongst prejudice, family problems, a murder and some unsavory characters, the girls need to navigate life together. ( ) While I kept on reading this book just to see what would happen, I found it to be somewhat improbable, which kept those critical thoughts at the forefront of my mind. The novel takes place in the 20s in the bayou country of Louisiana. Ada is a white girl who has run away but returned pregnant to her abusive father's home. She is eventually rescued, in a manner of speaking, by a black girl who teaches her what she needs to know to make it on her own. I was sorry for the girls and the lives that they had experienced, and I wanted them to succeed in everything they did. That kept me reading. Not sure why so much hype and praise has been given to this book. The writing is fine, but it was difficult to really care about the two main characters as they were not well developed, and became stereotypes of what you would expect. The bigger problem is this is the authors first book. Prior to this she has written short stories. This should have been around 125-150 pages. Instead it is 350 pages. Yes basically 200 pages of filler that add very little to the story. Too much of this book just dragged on and on and nothing happened. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle. She forms a plan to go north, to pack up the secrets she's holding about her life in the South and hang them on the line for all to see. As the two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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