![]() ![]() Saccharine, artificial and contrived were many of these passages. It took me out of the very interesting and beautiful story and made me shudder. It is amateurish, flowery and often does not fit. She also wants to infuse poetry into her prose and this is where she really loses me. as well as the treatment of women who had unplanned pregnancies. She wants to "tell" rather than "show" the ethical dilemas about the treatment of the Japanese during World War 2 in the U.S. If she focused solely on this she would have had a quietly moving masterpiece. Creel is expert at letting a story unfold slowly, langourously even and is quite adept at describing shifting emotions and internal psychological struggles around love, desire, grief and gender and ethnic dynamics. She befriends two Japanese sisters that work on her husband's farm as they have been sent to a camp for being Japanese during World War 2. It is about an intelligent young woman who gets herself pregnant and then is sent to marry with a socially awkward but loving farmer who is willing to raise the child as his own. ![]() This book takes place in Colorado in the 1940s. ![]() Creel had a 5 star book here had she taken more time and care with this gentle historical drama romance. 3 "whimsical, delicate but sometimes (often even) off the mark" stars !! ![]()
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