A review by kdaven8
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

5.0

I have been thinking lately about the history I learned as a kid. It was appropriately cleaned up for children’s minds. With a puritan frosting covering all the messy parts. For many years I felt that kid history was fact. That is how it was taught. Since I took a woman’s history class in college I started to realize maybe that was not the whole story. After reading Howard Zinn’s A people’s history of the United States I have been on the hunt for Historical Fiction that can help me understand time and place.
Booth did that for me. It is also really well written and a very interesting work fiction.