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I read this solely for @Faranae's #URC and it was a pleasant surprise! I loved reading about women pilots in WW2. (My late mother-in-law took flying lessons back then but her instructor made a pass at her and she quit. 😡 She would have enjoyed this.)

The modern day part of the story was a bit goofy, but satisfying. Sookie is a middle-aged Southern housewife who's long been under the thumb of her domineering, narcissistic mother. cont.

“She took her small bottle of smelling salts out and took a few sniffs and sat and waited.“

This is 2005! I read it and thought, wow, the South is another country. And then was very amused when the author says that very thing in the bonus material.

I liked this book. The story is about a young boy who is the son of an immigrant Chinese mother. One day she goes to work & never comes home. The boy is soon adopted by an American couple. He tries to fit in to his new life but he never quite does. As an adult he tries to track his mother down & finds out she was deported back to China. The story is told in alternating points of view until they find each other & all his questions are answered.

After a bit of a slow I had a hard time putting this down. Adoption has some shady ass roots thanks to Georgia Tann. Both a heartbreaking and heartwarming story.

77/80

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This feels like a Woman's Prize book. I would not be surprised to see this on their list next year.
I think putting it on the Booker list was a mistake, but I personally really enjoyed it. I thought it gave a great overview of T&T from the 70-90s Though it was an incredibly White view that the author could have addressed better.
As someone who was left at a hospital in 1980, and who was adopted, I found this incredibly interesting on that front.