Book 96 of my 2025 Reading Challenge
read from December 25 - 26
Garden of Stones by Sophie Littlefield
published 2013
Summary (via the book jacket)
Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up - along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans - and taken to the Manzanar prison camp.
Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever - and spur her to sins of her own.
My Opinion
4 stars
I wavered between 3 and 4 stars but rounded up because it was very readable. There were twists on twists that went a bit too far - the extra stuff about the baby felt like one twist too many and out of place.
No comments:
Post a Comment