Sing For Me by Karen Halvorsen Schreck - This story takes place in Chicago in 1937, the year my dad graduated from high school and started college, and his sisters went missing, and America's depression was in full swing. It's about a 21 year old girl from a strict church-going family of Danish descent. She has a beautiful singing voice, but she is expected to help her family by working as a cleaning woman, and to embrace their values in terms of only singing church hymns. You can just see where this is going, right? Fortunately she has a close cousin who encourages her to get out of the rut, and her eyes are opened to a world she never imagined that she might embrace. It's the best book, and another one I chose by its cover on that great little cart next to our reference librarians' desk.
Monday, July 14, 2014
SING FOR ME
Sing For Me by Karen Halvorsen Schreck - This story takes place in Chicago in 1937, the year my dad graduated from high school and started college, and his sisters went missing, and America's depression was in full swing. It's about a 21 year old girl from a strict church-going family of Danish descent. She has a beautiful singing voice, but she is expected to help her family by working as a cleaning woman, and to embrace their values in terms of only singing church hymns. You can just see where this is going, right? Fortunately she has a close cousin who encourages her to get out of the rut, and her eyes are opened to a world she never imagined that she might embrace. It's the best book, and another one I chose by its cover on that great little cart next to our reference librarians' desk.
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