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A review by just_me_gi
Pioneer Girl by Bich Minh Nguyen
3.0
3.5 stars.
I think I would have loved this more had I not known/read Prairie Fires and how horrible Laura and Rose are/were. Would have been easier to fall into the fun main character had discovering and imagining the relationship.
Though the metaphor at the end of academia as pioneer life, when you link it with the ridiculousness and sham that was advertising homesteading etc that was part of Prairie Fires, that if you just work hard you can make it there too, when in reality, what is required is impossible and a combo of luck and privilege, that was a great metaphor that really hit home for me--but I doubt or don't know if the author meant it this way.
I think I would have loved this more had I not known/read Prairie Fires and how horrible Laura and Rose are/were. Would have been easier to fall into the fun main character had discovering and imagining the relationship.
Though the metaphor at the end of academia as pioneer life, when you link it with the ridiculousness and sham that was advertising homesteading etc that was part of Prairie Fires, that if you just work hard you can make it there too, when in reality, what is required is impossible and a combo of luck and privilege, that was a great metaphor that really hit home for me--but I doubt or don't know if the author meant it this way.