White Ghost Girls
Author: Alice Greenway
Genre: Young Adult Fiction: Multicultural
Pages: 12% (on the kindle you don't have the number of pages)
Summary: So far in the first 3 chapters I've read the characters are introduced and you get a feel for the setting. The book is set in Hong Kong during the war between Vietnam and America. The main characters are Kate and Frankie who are sisters and who come from America but live in Hong Kong. Their father is a journalist/photographer and he reports and takes pictures of the war. Their mom is a painter who is alone to take care of them. In the second chapter Kate and Ah Wong a fisherman find the body of a dead lady and drag it out to shore. The hair of the lady is black and fans out in the water around her head, little fish swim around in her eye sockets and she is wearing a farmer's clothes.
What do you expect for your continued reading?
I expect something bad to happen to start the conflict. For example their father getting hurt or disappearing.
How satisfied are you with what you have read?
I am satisfied with what i have read so far because the story is very suspenseful and interesting.
Passage Section:
The story is told from Kate the younger sisters' point of view.Her first sentence is a question which tells you a lot yet so little. "What can you give me?" She then goes on to describe China and you can feel that she is missing something. The she says "Can you give me my father's hand in mine and Frankie's in the other? Then take everything and go away?". "This summer, the one i'm going to tell you about, is the only time that matters. It's the time I'll think of when i'm dying just as another might recall a lost lover or regret a lover they never had. For me there is one story. It's my sister's-Frankie's."
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