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A review by aimee70807
Same Sun Here by Neela Vaswani, Silas House
4.0
Maybe if I were more of a middle readers person, I wouldn't have gotten bogged down here and there in this book. On the one hand, I really liked parts of it (especially learning about the New York girl who had been born in India). On the other hand, I didn't believe in the Appalachian boy at all, and even though I agree with him about mountaintop removal, I felt like the author was cramming the issue down my throat.
On an unrelated note, I kept hoping there would be an afterword explaining how the book was written. It's in letter form between two fictional characters, one in New York and one in Kentucky and is actually written by two real people, one in New York and one in Kentucky. Did the two of them write the book as letters? Did they write it the obvious way (New Yorker writing the New York letters, Kentuckian writing the Kentucky letters)? Thirty seconds of research hasn't turned up the answer.
On an unrelated note, I kept hoping there would be an afterword explaining how the book was written. It's in letter form between two fictional characters, one in New York and one in Kentucky and is actually written by two real people, one in New York and one in Kentucky. Did the two of them write the book as letters? Did they write it the obvious way (New Yorker writing the New York letters, Kentuckian writing the Kentucky letters)? Thirty seconds of research hasn't turned up the answer.