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 What is it like to grow up in what you thought was a white middle class family with your natural parents and two younger brother only to discover at age twenty-seven that your dad is not your biological father and that your birth father was black? Sarah Valentine, who grew up Sarah Dunn, offers a compassionate and honest memoir of what that was like for her, writing about her personal discoveries as a biracial woman as she searched for her biological father.
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 The story of five diverse people and their history with trees throughout their lives, from a personal tree in their back yard to their responses to saving trees in the world. Full of compassion but also a darkness creeps into their stories. As that happened I found myself not picking up the book and then deciding not to read the last 250 pages of this 500 page deep and important story.  A story of compassion for women minimized because they are women, in this case Albert Einstein’s first wife, Meliva, a brilliant scientist in her own right. According to this fictional tale, she may have been the Einstein who actually conceived the theory of relativity. Was she was born at the wrong time in history, or married to the wrong man, or both?  A story of two brothers, Arthur and Jake, sons of a farmer in the 1930s, during World War II, and into the 1950s in rural Ontario, Canada. The jealousy, rivalry, passion, and compassion of the two brothers is seen through the eyes of Ian, the teenage son of the town’s doctor, who later in the story takes his father’s place. Very compelling story that kept me reading. A new favorite author for me. |
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