![]() It’s an interesting book and the fact that both novels were written by the same author lends it a nice air of similar tone that I think helps the story along. Does that mean that Ellen Emerson White did a bad job of writing a novel about an eighteen-year-old man? Some can be great! Some can be mediocre at best. Now, I complain a lot about novels where I feel an author of the same racial background or experience would have brought a better understanding to the book (see Barry Denenberg’s book in the same series on the Japanese interment, or the backlash against Ann Rinaldi’s Dear America book on residential schools compared with the great interest about Ruby Slipperjack’s upcoming Dear Canada novel on residential schools)-but I don’t always feel the same way about men writing about girls or women on boys. ![]() This one, by necessity, is much more tightly focused and includes boatloads more detail on the war experience. ![]() ![]() Last week’s Dear America novel, Where Have All The Flowers Gone?is a pretty straight-up diary-style exploration of what it’s like to be a teenager in America in 1968 and having a brother fighting in Vietnam. ![]()
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