Historical Fiction is all the rage!!
The House of Eve, by Sadeqa Joahnson, tells the story of two American women during the 1950’s. One lives in Philadelphia and the other in Washington, D.C. Their lives intersect as they struggle to find their place in a world where the odds seem stacked against them. Johnson takes episodes from her own life and weaves in historical characters for a very engaging novel.
River Sing me Home, a debut novel by Eleanor Shearer, is based on a real woman who went in search of the children taken from her during slavery. Set in a British colony, the book was written by a mixed race author of Caribbean descent. Heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting, the book is a good story from which we learn something new.
Marie Benedict delivers an historical fiction that will keep the reader on her/his toes. In The Mitford Affair, Nancy Mitford, one of six famous British sisters, worries about two of her sisters who make alliances with Nazis while Great Britain is on the brink of World War II. Intrique and dilemmas make this book a ‘page turner.’
The Librarian of Burned Books, by Brianna Labuskes, is being released on February 21. I did not know of the German Library of Banned Books or Council of Books in Wartime, but now I do thanks to Brianna Labuskes. Labuskes tells the story of three women who become entanged in a battle of censorship that begins with the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. The reader follows the women’s paths as they cross and as their lives are forever changed. Once again, the power of the written word is celebrated.
