Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Hard Red Spring, by Kelley Kerney, provides even more proof that fiction is better than textbooks for putting oneself into the shoes of people who lived in other places, at other times. So much information is conveyed in this book that I feel like I’ve had a college course on Guatemala’s history, but the characters brought the heartbreak home in a way that no course could have done. Hard Red Spring is told in four parts, focusing on four different American girls and women, who have come to live in Guatemala for various reasons. These characters have a limited view of larger events and are not always the most reliable of narrators. Still, the point of reading good historical fiction is not to learn the objective truth (as objective as it can be), but to learn the truths of life at the time. This book lays down some truths...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.