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![]() Best Books With Sisters (109) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. As much as I wanted to really like this book, I just could not get behind the story lines or the characters. It felt like there were too many characters thrown in and I did not feel any sort of attachment to any of them, not even Azure, who was the sweetest of them all, in my opinion. It felt to me as though there were too many excessive details bogging the stories down - too much information about where Azure and Rain were living, unnecessary details about the pasts of different characters that just didn't resonate or feel important. We got into the mindsets and heads of too many people for me to keep track of. Further, nothing really seemed to be happening to push the story forward. It just felt like Rain and Azure were in a constant state of near-misery with no change in sight. Even when the sisters got moved to Dolly's house with Junior, I was waiting for something to happen and it just didn't. I did not give this a rating because I want diverse voices and stories to be heard, regardless of how I (a white person) feels about it. I really enjoyed this book although some parts were very sad to read. I liked how the story was told from different perspectives throughout the book. I did not want the book to end. I just wanted to know more about Azure’s story especially how she started dating and then got married and had a child. I also wish they could have found their mother Loretta but I was happy that they ended up loving with family. I look forward to reading more books by Linda LeGarde Grover. She just has an amazing way with her prose. In The Night of Memory is a story about two little girls who are surrendered by their mother and placed up for adoption. The difference between this story and similar adoption stories is that these two little girls are Native American children. As you can probably imagine, their heritage puts both of the girls in a different type of situation when it comes to the matter of someone adopting or fostering them. Many people are not open to the idea of caring for children who are from a different racial background than their own. Because of this situation, both of the girls are treated poorly by abuse, neglect, etc. Eventually the girls land with native family. Now,they can learn more about their heritage. Based on an excerpt only Linda LeGarde Grover created a lovely portrait of life in Minnesota, and the longing that comes with a separated family in In The Night Of Memory. It is a very clear example of the broadness of the institution of family, that it is defined by whatever might be valuable socially. We find family everywhere. The characters and settings are so well drawn, and one finds themselves empathizing with them almost immediately. What she has created here is a true work of art, intent on tugging the heartstrings in a unique and interesting perspective. Her prose style is lovely, and I continued to turn pages in delight. I would recommend this book to most people I know who enjoy a pointed read. I was very satisfied. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages 3 and 4, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched--and all the stories they tell in this novel. In the Night of Memory returns to the fictional reservation of Linda LeGarde Grover's previous award-winning books, introducing readers to a new generation of the Gallette family as Azure and Rain make their way home. After a string of foster placements, from cold to kind to cruel, the girls find their way back to their extended Mozhay family, and a new set of challenges, and stories, unfolds. Deftly, Grover conjures a chorus of women's voices (sensible, sensitive Azure's first among them) to fill in the sorrows and joys, the loves and the losses that have brought the girls and their people to this moment. Though reconciliation is possible, some ruptures simply cannot be repaired; they can only be lived through, or lived with. In the Night of Memory creates a nuanced, moving, often humorous picture of two Ojibwe girls becoming women in light of this lesson learned in the long, sharply etched shadow of Native American history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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