laurieb755 's review for:

Mary Coin by Marisa Silver

5.0

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Second historical fiction I've read in the past two months, and equally - perhaps more - moving. Marisa Silver imagines the lives of Florence Owens Thompson (Mary Coin) and Dorothea Lange (Vera Dare). America's dustbowl depression past comes vividly into view through Silver's prose. Told through the voices of Mary Coin (migrant mother and worker), Vera Dare (photographer and mother) and Walker Dodge (professor of culture and father), Silver creates the lives behind the famous photo - who is the woman in the picture, and who is the woman who took that picture? And what of the young boy?