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A review by hopevollm
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 by Barry Denenberg
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
Another one I won’t rate but I didn’t like this as much as the last Dear America book I read. It wasn’t bad it just didn’t feel like we got to know Amber that well. She’s 12, which seems a bit young and maybe that’s why we don’t delve a ton into her life. We’re really having dinner parties with her parents and stuff. She does have one friend in Hawaii, a Japanese American girl called Kame.
The day of Pearl Harbor and the next couple are sad. The attack itself is described- and the way amber and her family react is really sad. The hospital scene is tough.
But then they just pack up and head to San Francisco. And we get a 1.5 page epilogue. We don’t even know what job Amber had as an adult? What happened to her parents. Her brother. I feel like we should have gotten more.
The day of Pearl Harbor and the next couple are sad. The attack itself is described- and the way amber and her family react is really sad. The hospital scene is tough.
But then they just pack up and head to San Francisco. And we get a 1.5 page epilogue. We don’t even know what job Amber had as an adult? What happened to her parents. Her brother. I feel like we should have gotten more.