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- The Underground Railroad. by Colson Whitehead. This #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles Cora, a young enslaved woman on a cotton plantation in Georgia, on her adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom.
- The Crucible. by Arthur Miller. Based on historical people and real events, the book explores the history of the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, while painting a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria.
- All the Broken Places. by John Boyne. Bestselling author of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (another powerful book about the Holocaust that sold millions of copies around the world), Miller returns with a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the terrible sins of her past and show it is never too late for bravery.
- When the Emperor Was Divine. by Julie Otsuka. Otsuka’s debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps, both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and a resonant lesson for our times.
Sep 14, 2016 · Cliché, perhaps, but historical fiction does ‘make history alive.’. Through narrative, details, dialogue, scene description, a reader feels more connected with the story then through a straight-up historic text. Makes you WANT to read the ‘real story.’. Upon my next bookstore outing, I will be picking up a copy of Houdini’s biography.
Apr 14, 2015 · Historical fiction allows us to “ understand the extremes of human behaviour.”. The novel can explore “various ways of facing, understanding and living with the horrific events in the past.”. Historical fiction helps us retain the past. Noble purposes indeed. Something to think about the next time you enjoy historical fiction.
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Historical fiction is also an excellent tool to help introduce individuals to the past, especially children. It is through fiction that most first experience the concept of ‘then’ and ‘now,’ the distinction of experiences before they were alive. These abstract thought processes start earlier than one would think, and are an important ...
Dec 23, 2021 · The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. In 1949 four immigrant women living in San Francisco used to come together weekly to play mahjong and talk about the ghosts of their past lives in China. They called themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters felt that their mothers’ advice was not relevant to their modern American lives.
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Jun 4, 2020 · History. Of course, the story is important. It has to have a compelling plot, interesting, three-dimensional characters, realistic dialog, and keep-it-moving pacing. The writing is important. The ...
