Finished We 6/25/14
The June 2014 selection for The Contemporary Book Club
I thought the book was aimed at a 'Young Adult' audience, but maybe I was just looking for more complexity. Characters and situations were interesting, but not fleshed out or expanded upon.
Each of the characters have better or just as good entries on Wikipedia, and this is the mark of death for a successful historical fiction.
Not bad, just average, but the character of Vinnie Warren Bump kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Far too egotistical, but I guess she was the kind of 19th century woman who would stand up for herself and didn't allow herself to be pushed around, and for just that reason she would be worthy of note. But, very sexually repressed.
Links at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Warren
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tom_Thumb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.T._Barnum
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