About the Book
In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives.
My Thoughts
Susie Finkbeiner writes in a genre I don't usually read, but I love her style of writing so I read her books anyway. I found the book to be well written and I liked getting to see things from the different points of view and in the different time periods. Operation Babylift intrigues me and I want to find out more about it. I look forward to reading more of Susie Finkbeiner's books.
About the Author
Susie Finkbeiner is a story junkie. Always has been and always will be. It seems it's a congenital condition, one she's quite fond of.
After decades of reading everything she could get her hands on (except for See the Eel, a book assigned to her while in first grade, a book she declared was unfit for her book-snob eyes), Susie realized that she wanted to write stories of her own. She began with epics about horses and kittens (but never, ever eels).
It takes years to grow a writer and after decades of work, Susie realized (with much gnashing of teeth and tears) that she was a novelist. In order to learn how to write novels, she read eclectically and adventurously (she may never swim with sharks, but the lady will jump into nearly any story). After reading the work of Lisa Samson, Patti Hill, and Bonnie Grove she realized that there was room for a writer like her in Christian fiction.
Her first novels Paint Chips (2013) and My Mother's Chamomile (2014) have contemporary settings. While she loved those stories and especially the characters, Susie felt the pull toward historical fiction.
When she read Into the Free by Julie Cantrell she knew she wanted to write historical stories with a side of spunk, grit, and vulnerability. Susie is also greatly inspired by the work of Jocelyn Green, Rachel McMillan, and Tracy Groot.
A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl (2015), Finkbeiner's bestselling historical set in 1930s Oklahoma, has been compared to the work of John Steinbeck and Harper Lee (which flatters Susie's socks off). Pearl's story continues with A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the Great Depression (2017) and A Song of Home: A Novel of the Swing Era (2018).
What does she have planned after that? More stories, of course. She's a junkie. She couldn't quit if she wanted to
"The Nature of Small Birds" is available in paperback:
- Publisher : Revell (July 6, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0800739353
- ISBN-13 : 978-0800739355
- Item Weight : 11.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.92 x 8.5 inches
and in Kindle edition:
- ASIN : B08MXYS53G
- Publisher : Revell (July 6, 2021)
- Publication date : July 6, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 9512 KB
I got a free copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own and given voluntarily. No compensation was received for my review.
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