Patty R. (PattyR) reviewed on 11/1/2010 + 9 more book reviews

I really enjoyed this book. It's the author's grandmother's stories written down in the first person. I didn't realize when I first started reading this book that it's not really fiction. Everything that happened to Lily are true. The part that is fictional are all the thoughts that the author, Lily's grand-daughter, probably didn't know and made up. Unless it was a part of the oral history told to her. There's no way to know what parts she made up and what was originally told in the oral history.

Still, I thought the format made the story much more interesting to read than straight history and since I love historical fiction, it was a great read for me.

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