WHITER THAN SNOW
Written by Sandra Dallas
(Audio)
genre: literary fiction, historical fiction
3.5 STARS
1920s - Swandyke, Colorado -
The novel opens with an avalanche heading towards the school house and
branches out to show the past life of Swandyke residents.
There is Lucy
Patch - born and raised in Swandyke - daughter of a miner and sister to
the town beauty. Her intelligence bides her time out of the mine and
into the city and college life with the promise to return right after as
per her father and sister, Dolly.
Grace Foote
is more than the snobby mine manager's wife...she was once a debutante
and from a wealthy family whose fortune had crumbled. Wanting to go to
college she is instead sent to finishing school which seems to be of no
use in the small mining town.
Joe Cobb
once had dreams of walking beside a white man until he saw a lynching
of his school teacher. He now finds himself on the run from Alabama
with his young daughter.
Minder
joined the war not because he wanted to help the black man but he
didn't know what else to do. He finally finds a sense of family only to
be ruined by the war that once was though to bring him happiness.
Essie
is a prostitute who has the talent of sewing which keeps her fed and
housed. She was once from a good Jewish family with dreams of having a
better life.
They now must turn to one another in the face of tragedy
A
great novel! The characters are so different and come from different
pasts but are brought together when tragedy strikes the small mining
town. Some of the men in this novel were so insensitive and the women
seemed to have suffered the same path of men bringing down love and
forcing them towards one road...Swandyke.
love,
kris
love,
kris
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