Nancy L

I was thrilled to receive a copy of this book! Started reading it with an open and hopeful mind. The first few chapters were worth sharing with my sister who is, like me, in her seventies. Even underlined several thoughts, happy that I had my own book to mark in. I loved that she and her friends were distraught when Trump was elected. Then it started going downhill and I couldn’t identify with any of the characters. I don’t know that the average older woman can afford to take trips, get massages, and pay for therapy. Instead of this book going to my sister, it will go into the library sale.

Realizing more every day that America wasn’t “great”. It baffles me how unreasonably cruel we can be when we don’t use our common sense. We (America!) incarcerated innocent people simply because of where they were born. These two teenagers tried to make the best of their lack of freedom by holding on to each other. Both girls were born in America, but their parents were German and Japanese during World War II and put into internment centers with everything taken from them. How dare us?

The history of Oak Ridge - the town whose identity was the bomb. And the people who lived there and had no idea what they were doing.

A beautiful book based on Andrew Wyeth's painting: Christina's World. Generations of a stubborn family live on ancestral property in Cushing, Maine. Christina being just as stubborn as her mother, father and grandmother. Why they don't take this gorgeous property and update it is beyond me. Instead, they live without running water, electricity, telephone. I lived this life with them - every part of this book is so real.