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- Title: Tallgrass
- Author: Sandra Dallas Lorelei King
- ISBN: 9781427200457
- Page: 273
- Format: Audio CD
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2.5 From the blurb Part thriller, part historical novel I beg to differ There is nothing about this that would put it in the category of thriller In my opinion historical novel is stretching it as well Inspired by historical events might fit Some reviews and endorsements have also suggested that this could be considered in the same company with To Kill A Mockingbird Again, perhaps inspired by, with scenes and characters mirrored from that treasure of a novel is my takeaway It was neither hot nor [...]
I loved this book I bought a copy of it last summer when the author was signing copies in a little bookstore in Fort Madison, Iowa, and gave it to my wife as a birthday gift Last week I picked it up at the library on CD to listen to while driving listening to it was a pleasant suprise The story begins in 1942 in rural Colorado as Japanese Americans are arriving at an internment camp The story unfolds through the eyes of a thirteen year old local farm girl It is a story of the tragedy of war, the [...]
Sandra Dallas is back I had thoroughly enjoyed Dallas s earlier novels but was sorely disappointed with The Chili Queen so it was with some apprehension that I approached Tallgrass Would she be able to deliver Deliver she did Only two or three pages in and I was hooked the hallmark of a good book Unlike with some of her previous novels there are no quirky characters here, which is fitting as the subject matter does not warrant it The central characters are likable Rennie, the story s narrator, i [...]
The main character of this book is Rennie, a teenage girl who s family lives next to a Japanese internment camp in southeast Colorado during WWII I didn t like this book because the characters were so one dimensional They were either good guys or bad guys, and no one ever changed or learned anything from the beginning to the end of the story Of course, Rennie s family are one of only a few families that accept the Japanese into the community, and her family is the first to hire Japanese workers [...]
A coming of age story set on a farm in Colorado near a Japanese internment camp during World War II what s not to like It had every storyline I enjoy all rolled up into one neat little book Loved it
Set in Colorado during WWII, this story is convincingly narrated by a young girl growing up on a working farm It has been compared to the classic To Kill a Mockingbird, and I found that to be generally accurate A Japanese internment camp opening in the vicinity immediately generates fear and distrust among the community While a few had the vision to realize that many of the internees were American citizens who had been deprived of their property as well as their constitutional rights, general an [...]
I wrote the following while reading _Tallgrass_.Speaking of being disappointed, I m trying to get through _Tallgrass_ by Sandra Dallas I can t believe how the author stretches the book out with descriptions of boring domestic routines which can hold no possible interest for anyone For example The boys had finished their coffee, and Carl took their cups to the sink, washed them, and put them into the dish drainer Dad standing up and reaching for his plaid wool jacket on a hook beside the door p.2 [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed the first chapter of Tallgrass I thought I was getting To Kill A Mockingbird but with innocent Japanese detainees in camps during World War II instead of an innocent black man detained for rape in the south It had the requisite small town setting with a few violently ignorant residents It had the naive daughter narrating the story with a do the right thing even if it s unpopular father as her hero Like I said, the flavor was there.But the taste was not I don t know if the au [...]
I had a difficult time with this book The premise was interesting the internment of the Japanese during WWII and it s one very rarely addressed, unlike racism against blacks or sexism in the Middle East Probably because it s an episode the U.S would like to forget for good reason.Normally, I finish a new book in a few days, and this one took me about that long, though it s short I had a hard time picking it up It sat there on my bedside table, and every night I d settle down and look at the pile [...]
This book was written beautifully through the eyes of a young farm girl, Rennie Stroud The setting is Ellis, Colorado during World War II and the Japanese incarcerations in internment camps It discusses the narrow mindedness, fear, and stereotyping that has repeated itself throughout the history of our country when it comes to the white man s view of other races and cultures It touches upon subjects of life during war times, the struggle of the small town American to survive in these times, the [...]
This was a very interesting book about a dark period in American history It centered around a Japanese internment camp during Word War II I thought it was extremely well written and the characters thought out It did contain a lot of blatant racism, rape and the murder of a young teenage girl Besides all this the story was about a family and how they pulled together to get through this difficult time.
By far one of my favorite Sandra Dallas books with Buster Midnight s Caf , Tallgrass is set during World War II and at its center is the plight of the American Japanese s being forcibly relocated to internment camps, mostly in the West of the US, after Pearl Harbor The novel is told through the eyes of Rennie Stroud, a thirteen year old beet farm girl, who lives near one of these camps in their community of Ellis, Colorado This one internment camp is called Tallgrass because of the patch of land [...]
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas is the story of a young girl growing up in a small town in Colorado during WWII A Japanese internment camp is built down the road from her family s farm her father is a beet farmer and hires several young boys to help with the beet planting harvesting over several years Of course, that comes fraught with many issues since quite a few of the townspeople hate the Japanese I really did like the plot and the characters of this story There are many characteristics of To Kil [...]
Wow, this book was pretty bad Tallgrass is an internment camp in Colorado outside the town of Ellis A town where everyone knows your name and business The japanese internment camp has the townsfolk a little worried, but not for the Stroud s The Stroud s own the local beet farm and soon employ some prisoners from Tallgrass to work the fields The story is told by Rennie Stroud, a 13 year old girl who is trying to understand the current events surrounding her Suddenly, Rennie s friend Susan is rape [...]
This novel is an excellent addition to the collection of materials concerning Japanese internment during WWII Actually, the camps for Japanese American citizens were called relocation camps The internment camps were for those considered to be high risk threat I love a book where I learn about a subject, and Tallgrass fits that bill Tallgrass is a fictional name for a relocation camp in Colorado they did have an actual camp in that state, Amache The story centers around a family of beet farmers [...]
This would make a really good book club book It s a fascinating look at the Internment camps, actually of a look on the people in the towns and how they felt about it it was nice to find out that some didn t want the camps and that these people should be released because they were American citizens It s a sad chapter in the US History but something that we need to look at so it doesn t happen again especially in this day and age I enjoyed the characters in this book especially Rennie and her fa [...]
The only other book I ve read about Japanese detention camps was Corner of Bitter and sweet by Jaime Ford This book takes place in farmland of Colorado and tells the tale of the farm family that lives near the camp and of the townspeople who are ready to blame the members of the camp for anything and everything that goes wrong With a sister that has moved to the city, a mother with a heart condition, a classmate who is raped and murdered, and a brother who joins up and is MIA, the girl in this b [...]
Great book, wonderful characters, nicely developed plot and setting, a good look at life during the war from the perspective of a young teenager living in a very rural farm town that happened to have a Japanese detention center It wasn t always engaging in a way that made me want to keep reading but the characters were all really likable and it was a pleasure to read, slowly Side benefit I d like to get into quilting now As always, see my comments to see what I actually thought as I read the cat [...]
This book takes place during World War II and what happens when a Japanese internment camp is opened in the small town of Ellis, Colorado The narrator is a thirteen year old girl named Rennie Stroud I thought this book would be about the camp, but it is really about the people of Ellis and how their prejudices affect their lives Rennie learns a lot about life and people in this story It is a very good coming of age story with a lot of emotion and great characters Author, Sanda Dallas writing ha [...]
Really good book about the Japanese internment camp during World War II and a colorado town s relationship with them I love being able to learn about a piece of history while enjoying a good story Good story about a strong willed father s bravery to stand up to prejudice and how this impacted his family and those around him.
An interesting novel about the Japanese interment camps during WW2 It reflected how one small Colorado town dealt with it Not always well for the most part with the exception of the main character s family There was also a murder typical family dramas for this beet farm family Although not a YA book, it was told from the point of view of a 13 year old girl which I liked.
Loved the characters Rooted for them throughout and appreciated the epilogue so I knew what happened to them.
On our road trip to the Big Horn Mountains, we met a lady who suggested that we visit the Heart Mountain WW2 Japanese Internment Camp site near Powell, WY Such a coincidence since we were listening to Tallgrass on our journey Sandra Dallas tells the story of how the internment camp, Tallgrass, impacted the people of the residents of the small rural Colorado community with the Stroud family, sugar beet farmers, the core of the story The characters become real people with complex problems The read [...]
TALLGRASS is one of those stories I won t forget Some authors books blend all together after a while, but this one really stands out Sandra Dallas weaves a plot set in a small rural farm town in the early 1940 s It s about one particular family, the Strouds, and their interaction with other townspeople when a Japanese internment camp is built on the edge of town, adjacent to the Stroud s beet farm Times are rough they re making do without the usual amenities of life because of the depression, bu [...]
After a friend of mine raved about Tallgrass, by Sandra Dallas, I decided to try the audio version The reader Lorelei King was terrific I started this one about 2 weeks ago, but since I do not drive long distances too often it took me until now to finish it.The story is narrated by a young girl named Rennie Stroud, and the story takes place in the early part of 1942, not long after the bombing of Pearl Harbor Rennie tells the story what happened the summer she turned thirteen when the Japanese c [...]
Set in a Colorado beet farming community that gets a Japanese internment camp, this is To Kill a Mockingbird nearly scene for scene It s told by Rennie, a young girl Her father is a forceful man who has given up fighting, but goes against many in the town by hiring Japanese Americans to help him on the farm There s a mean low class family who threaten Rennie s family The neighbor ladies make cakes for each other, even during the war Rennie, her Mom there s a difference with TKaM, Rennie has a po [...]
Tallgrass is set during World War II and focuses on the plight of the American born Japanese that were relocated to internment camps It is told through the eyes of a thirteen year old farm girl, who lives near one of these camps in the southeastern Colorado A local handicapped young girl is found brutally murdered Quickly the town s population assumes the Japanese must have committed the crime This murder and the local folk s reaction form the central plot of the book.Sandra Dallas does a skillf [...]
Tallgrass of a fiction Japanese internment camp during World War II Tallgrass, the novel, centers less around the camp itself and about the small and small minded town that surrounds it Racism and tension run amok, worsening when a local girl is raped and murdered and most of the townspeople believe a prisoner at the camp must be responsible Told from the viewpoint of thirteen year old Rennie from her family beet farm, the story has multiple layers and dimensions and all the main characters are [...]
A blend between Plainsong, To Kill a Mockinbird and Kings Row yes three VERY UNLIKELY comparisons , this is a really good read It s a historical novel, beginning in 1942 in a mythical town in southern Colorado where a WW2 Japanese internment camp is built The real town is Granada, but this one is Ellis The author says in her introduction that, being white, she doesn t presume to share the Japanese experience so instead, she shares the rural white experience of that period The narrator is a teena [...]
In the audio interview, when asked about the point of view, Dallas said something along the lines of, I didn t want to write from a Japanese perspective because I m not Japanese and that would be pretentious But she s using these experiences as a backdrop to her narrative and culling a Scout esque narrator in fairly flawed way This is first person omniscient, somehow, with parts of the story revealed that the narrator never observes Also in the interview, the author is asked why the Japanese wer [...]