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City of Grit and Gold: 08/08/24
City of Grit and Gold by Maud Macrory Powell (2017) is historical fiction set in Chicago in 1886. Addie, a young Jewish immigrant witnesses her family torn apart by a TB outbreak and worker unrest. The book is clearly written to teach about that particular time period. It's designed to deliver the most melodrama as possible in as short of a page span as possible. Although the protagonist is on the cusp on being a teenager, the novel doesn't read like a middle grade novel. Save for the opening scene before Addie has to help fetch a doctor, the scenes just don't feel like they are from her POV. She's in them but she's not living them. Two stars Comments (0) |