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A review by tangodiva
The All-American by Susie Finkbeiner
3.0
First, I'm a sucker for a gorgeous cover (as you know by now) and this one takes the cake.
I've been adding a lot of books lately to my pile from Dear Author reviews, specifically ones by Jayne.
This was a combination of the All American Girls Baseball League crossed with the Red Scare of the early 1950s. I think it is really a young adult novel though I don't believe it's being marketed as such. It's also a light (very light) inspy.
I think this would be a great novel for a young person to read, or for me when I was a young person. My only real complaint was the focus on two sisters - Bertha and Florence - shortchanged Bertha, the baseball player, a bit. Florence became more of a distraction as a character and she gets a nice epilogue while we have zero idea what happens to Bertha. That grated. But big points for a unique setting and time that felt OF the time, not out of it.
I've been adding a lot of books lately to my pile from Dear Author reviews, specifically ones by Jayne.
This was a combination of the All American Girls Baseball League crossed with the Red Scare of the early 1950s. I think it is really a young adult novel though I don't believe it's being marketed as such. It's also a light (very light) inspy.
I think this would be a great novel for a young person to read, or for me when I was a young person. My only real complaint was the focus on two sisters - Bertha and Florence - shortchanged Bertha, the baseball player, a bit. Florence became more of a distraction as a character and she gets a nice epilogue while we have zero idea what happens to Bertha. That grated. But big points for a unique setting and time that felt OF the time, not out of it.