Garden of Stones

Name: Garden of Stones
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Sophie Littlefield
ISBN: 9781452684406

Author: Sophie Littlefield

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/17/2013

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Lucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their home, rounded up—along with thousands of other innocent Japanese-Americans—and taken to the Manzanar prison camp.

Buffeted by blistering heat and choking dust, Lucy and Miyako must endure the harsh living conditions of the camp. Corruption and abuse creep into every corner of Manzanar, eventually ensnaring beautiful, vulnerable Miyako. Ruined and unwilling to surrender her daughter to the same fate, Miyako soon breaks. Her final act of desperation will stay with Lucy forever . . . and spur her to sins of her own.

About Sophie Littlefield

Sophie Littlefield is the bestselling author of titles in a variety of genres, including crime fiction, dystopian fiction, and YA fiction. Among her books are the Stella Hardesty Crime series, the Hailey Tarbell series, and the Aftertime novels. Sophie grew up in rural Missouri and attended college in Indiana. She now lives in northern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim

4 stars This is the first book I've read about the Japanese internment camps. Wow, it's so hard to know that this happened in our own country. This is an emotional story with a couple surprise twists and turns thrown in!......more

Goodreads review by Judith

When we think of internment camps and WWII, we don’t think of California, Arizona and Utah, but we should. Sophie Littlefield’s upcoming book, Garden of Stones, which moves between WWII and the 1970’s, draws us into this shameful chapter of US history after the bombing of Pearl Harbor—the rounding u......more

Goodreads review by M.J.

Writing a review for this novel is difficult. Was it enjoyable? Yes. Is it well written (prose/language wise)? Yes. About these things, I'm certain. What I had a bit of a problem with was the style - more specifically, I think the author had difficulty choosing one. The first half of the book is a s......more