What I Read June

I am linking up with Modern Mrs Darcy's Quick Lit. Check what everyone else is reading

 I have been on a roll of reading in part spurred on by The Summer Reading Guide by Modern Mrs Darcy. I have been working my way through the Guide. I am at the mercy of the library hold list.

Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

Sitaria is raised in Kabul and has privileged a very life. All of that comes crumbling down when the Soviets invade. The story has many twists and turns as she escapes Afghanistan with  help. Later she is confronted by her past. This book has a great story. I could not put it down.  It is beautifully written.

This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.

Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole. (Amazon Review)

One of the locations in the book the flats in Minneapolis is area that my husband's ancestors lived so I have been part of the my genealogy research.

I guess this read was timely though 2 of the main characters are not Indian. They did attend a Indian School. This came out while I was reading this. 

Mass Grave of 215 children in Canada - This happened at a Indian Boarding School

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah books always make me cry. This book will make you shed a few tears. I thought this was a decent book with a good story line. I think I read it over the course of one day. The setting is the dust bowl and I think the part of the story set in Oklahoma is probably the strongest part of the story.