5 FEMINIST FICTION BOOKS FOR THE SUMMER
No, this is not related to the fan-favorite, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Ruta Sepetys’ “Between Shades of Gray” is a historical fiction novel about Stalin’s mass exodus of Lithuanians to work camps in the mid-20th Century. The narrator and protagonist, Lina, is a teenage girl coming of age in 1941 when Soviet officers enter her house and force her family to pack a few belongings and board a train.
They don’t tell them where they are going, but they end up in Siberia, having to work together to stay alive through the bitter winters. The story of the Lithuanian holocaust is one that is rarely told because Stalin ordered victims never to speak of it, but thankfully Sepetys has done countless hours of research to bring the story to us. Feminist readers will appreciate Lina as a young heroine, and her mother as the glue that holds them all together.
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Ruta Sepetys’ “Between Shades of Gray”
May 27, 2012 by
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