Jeannine Atkins's BORROWED NAMES
Sep. 26th, 2015 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pondhopJust started reading this. It's a trilogy, each part corresponding to a mother-daughter relationship: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, Madam C. J. Walker and A'Lelia Walker, and Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie.
Wasn't sure what to expect, but I am enjoying it so far, having read the Wilder/Lane part over dinner. It's from Rose's point of view, and deals with (non)motherhood, (un)reliability of memories, and choosing what to include in a story (which carries a layer of self-reference here, natch, since Atkins is herself picking and choosing what to tell about Wilder and Lane).
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Wasn't sure what to expect, but I am enjoying it so far, having read the Wilder/Lane part over dinner. It's from Rose's point of view, and deals with (non)motherhood, (un)reliability of memories, and choosing what to include in a story (which carries a layer of self-reference here, natch, since Atkins is herself picking and choosing what to tell about Wilder and Lane).
This entry was originally posted at http://bronze-ribbons.dreamwidth.org/393958.html. I see comments at DW, IJ, and LJ (when notifications are working, anyway), but not on feeds.