Fiction / Coming of Age
310 pages / 2228 KB
4 Stars
When Marisol is a young girl, her father is killed at Anzio
in WWII. Marisol's mother decides to take her young daughter, and move from the
light and warmth, and security, of their home in New Mexico to the almost
frontier of Seward, Alaska.
This book is a delightful telling of Marisol's adventures as
she leaves her Navajo friends, her Irish and Mexican families, and goes north
to the land of the midnight sun – and the midday darkness of winter. Told as a
faux memoir, we are transported by train and by ship to Seward. We make new
friends, partake of childhood high jinx, and learn new stories of Coyote and
Raven, the Tricksters.
All but the last chapter of this book takes place in the
1940s, and it's a delightful read of history seen through a young girl's eyes. This
is a book to be savored, read slowly. It is not filled with adrenaline, but
with soft beauty. I think Raven would approve of this book.
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