Blogs in January 1970

The Book of Dead Birds 1st January 1970

Hye-yang is a dutiful daughter in a Korean village where the women are ocean divers. But prostitution awaits her until an American takes her over to live in the States. Here she becomes Helen, and has a daughter –...

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Roommates 1st January 1970

Mystery novelist Elise relocates back to her home town, with dog Bella. Anyone who has had to put up with a flatshare from hell will be able to identify with Elise’s seach for someone with whom she can live…

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Gardenias 1st January 1970

The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...

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The Gangster We Are All Looking For 1st January 1970

In 1978, six Vietnamese refugees were pulled from the sea just off California. In San Diego, a little girl’s matter-of-fact innocence masks the ghostly traumas that still haunt her: the cataclysm that engulfed her homeland: the memory of a...

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