The Nature of Small Birds
Registered by gypsysmom of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on 5/19/2021
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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I received this book from the publisher through the LibraryThing Early Reader program.
This book is published by Revell. On their website they have this to say about their company "Revell began over 125 years ago when D. L. Moody and his brother-in-law Fleming H. Revell saw the need for practical books that would help bring the Christian faith to everyday life." Obviously to last for 125 years in the publishing business, this company fills some need so far be it for me to criticize. I was raised in a Christian home and went to Sunday school and church regularly until I moved away from home. However, the difference I witnessed between the principles Christians espoused and how they led their lives drove me away from organized religion. I have to say, though, that the characters in this book seem to mostly adhere to Christ's teachings.
There are three timelines to this book: 1975, 1988 and 2013. Bruce, a father of three girls and a grandfather to two girls, narrates the 2013 sections. Linda, his wife, narrates the 1975 sections. Sonny, their oldest daughter, is the narrator of the 1988 sections at which time she was 18 and a high school graduate. Their remembrances all centre around Mindy, the middle daughter, who was adopted at about the age of 4 from Vietnam in 1975. She was one of thousands of young Vietnamese children brought to the United States after the end of the Vietnam War in a scheme called Project Babylift. As an adult in 2013, newly separated from her husband and back living with her parents, she starts to explore what she can find out about her birth family. This is what causes her mother and her sister to remember the past and her father to chronicle how she makes her way through the process. It's an interesting way to structure a book and differentiates it from other books of adopted children which are usually told from their point of view.
This book was an okay read but I felt it glossed over some of the issues with the Vietnam War. Yes, a couple of the minor characters were upset when Bruce and Linda adopted Mindy because the lives lost and people injured in the war were still fresh in their memories. However, they soon dropped their opposition and accepted Mindy which I felt was somewhat unrealistic.
There are three timelines to this book: 1975, 1988 and 2013. Bruce, a father of three girls and a grandfather to two girls, narrates the 2013 sections. Linda, his wife, narrates the 1975 sections. Sonny, their oldest daughter, is the narrator of the 1988 sections at which time she was 18 and a high school graduate. Their remembrances all centre around Mindy, the middle daughter, who was adopted at about the age of 4 from Vietnam in 1975. She was one of thousands of young Vietnamese children brought to the United States after the end of the Vietnam War in a scheme called Project Babylift. As an adult in 2013, newly separated from her husband and back living with her parents, she starts to explore what she can find out about her birth family. This is what causes her mother and her sister to remember the past and her father to chronicle how she makes her way through the process. It's an interesting way to structure a book and differentiates it from other books of adopted children which are usually told from their point of view.
This book was an okay read but I felt it glossed over some of the issues with the Vietnam War. Yes, a couple of the minor characters were upset when Bruce and Linda adopted Mindy because the lives lost and people injured in the war were still fresh in their memories. However, they soon dropped their opposition and accepted Mindy which I felt was somewhat unrealistic.
Journal Entry 3 by gypsysmom at Little Free Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Thursday, January 27, 2022
Released 2 yrs ago (1/27/2022 UTC) at Little Free Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
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