Tag: 1970s historical fiction
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What to Read After Where The Crawdads Sing
Go as a River by Shelley Read This is a story of survival and love, with a strong sense of place in the Colorado Mountains (1940’s – 1970’s). You can tell the author has lived there for years and cherishes it. It is a story of adoption, necessary but cruel, and the long-reaching effects on… Read more
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What to Read After the Eclipse
The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel is about the wives of the Mercury Seven astronauts finding their voice as they transformed from military wives to celebrities during the great American space race! I loved how they supported each other through this exciting and dangerous time. Here’s the setup: “As America’s Mercury Seven astronauts were… Read more