Gordon,
Amy. Painting
the Rainbow. Holiday House 2014 167p $16.95 ISBN 978-0-8234-2525-9 ms/hs Historical fiction
VG
Coming of age in the 1960s, Ivy and
Holly are cousins who spend summers with their extended family at a lake house in New
Hampshire. Writing through diary entries, the girls share their concerns about their
families and how so many of the families’ problems seem to involve the death of
their Uncle Jesse during World War
Two. Wrapped
up with all of this are the Japanese internment camps during the war and one Kiyoshi
Miori, a family visitor during the war years.
I could not put this book down because
it pulled me right back into the past, into my own youth in the 1960s. Many of the problems
the girls face -- pressures to excel, feeling like second-class citizens in your own family,
family history that no one wants to talk about, and all of the other dynamics
of spending time with one’s extended family. As historical
fiction goes, this was highly readable and I am certain that there is a readership out there
for this book.
Summary: Coming of age in the 1960s, Ivy and Holly are cousins who spend summers with
their extended family at a lake house in New Hampshire. Writing through diary
entries, the girls share their concerns about their families and how so many of
their
problems seem to involve the death of their Uncle Jesse during World War Two.
Japanese internment
camps-Fiction --Lynn Fisher
