Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, April 7, 2024? [View all]yellowdogintexas
(23,058 posts)however, the books have some significant similarities in detail which prompted the author of "Bookwoman" to sue her. I picked up right away on them when I read Giver of Stars; mostly they are thinly veiled duplications of events out on the trail. There are a couple of characters that I felt were blatant copies of characters in "Bookwoman" and a couple of incidents which seem derivative of Bookwoman.
I read both books and I liked Bookwoman much better mostly because the author really conveys the feel and character of the Eastern Ky mountains in the 1930s, the attitudes toward women, the side story of Cussy's unique medical situation and the people she meets and deals with. It is better written and is told from the point of view of a woman whose family has lived in those mountains for several generations, a true inside story
Giver of Stars is told from the point of view of an outsider experiencing severe culture shock and saddled with a strange husband and horrid inlaws. This woman is navigating a world which is totally strange and baffling to her and her struggle to come to grips with this strange new place gives the story a different feel.
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