When Chapter 1 opens, Nori is ten and has pretty much been held captive in her grandparents' attic for the past two years. Let's give Nori's mother a bit of time to meet the father, start a relationship, give birth, and then return the baby to her parents' estate-realistically Nori would be a toddler. There would have been absolutely no way an American GI would have been in Japan in the late 1930s unless we are talking about an alternate universe. Well, the Occupation started after the war ended in 1945. The main character, Nori, with a Japanese mother and an African American GI father is supposedly born in 1940 and puts her at age 8 when the story starts. I can't imagine that the author didn't know. The first error is such a glaring one that I can't imagine how it got past the editorial team. As far as I'm concerned, fiction writers have the right to write about whatever they want.īut there are glaring errors that interfere with the the suspension of belief you need to fall in love with a novel. My feelings are not about whether or not someone has the "right" to tackle this subject. Diane Nagatomo I am just 10% into the book and I'm considering abandoning it because of the huge mistakes that I have noted so far, which also makes me question the …more I am just 10% into the book and I'm considering abandoning it because of the huge mistakes that I have noted so far, which also makes me question the author's "qualifications" and her "research".
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Later, politicians and diplomats will hire ghostwriters to burnish their images with eight-hundred-page tomes, any ten pages of which might be used for insomnia. Immediately after any conflict, conflagration, or flood, journalists produce the first books that the public devours. NIGHT DRAWS NEAR: IRAQ'S PEOPLE IN THE SHADOW OF AMERICA'S WAR by Anthony Shadid Henry Holt and Company. MY WAR: KILLING TIME IN IRAQ by Colby Buzzell G.P Putnam's Sons. OVER THERE: FROM THE BRONX TO BAGHDAD A MEMOIR by Alan Feuer Counterpoint. WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS by Chris Ayres Atlantic Monthly Press. The weight of her position starts to sink in. " In this book, you actually see Mia deal with real-life choices in relation to being a princess. I found myself saying "hurry up and read the next book" b/c I have to know what happens next. " So, I am upset that Mia and Michael broke up. " Again, Mia is annoying.I don't know how many times I have typed that. " It was good, but i just thought it should havve like.
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