This book has so much more impact now than it would have had 6 months ago. I had heard in passing about the Spanish influenza, but I don't recall any first hand experiences. Reading this story showed me how much less the current coronavirus we are dealing with really is. People with the Spanish influenza would be fine one day, then die within 24 hours. Much more deadly than our current pandemic.
This particular story follows a young girl named Pia who is a German immigrant. The story touches on racism, mistrust of anyone foreign, and a very deadly virus. The story follows her on the journey of trying to survive and be reunited with her twin baby brothers. She has to deal with many people who treat her as beneath them due to her home country and her parents being gone.
There is so much I learned through reading this book that really makes me feel so blessed to live in America now, and not 100 years ago. My ancestry is those German and Irish immigrants that were treated like filth. I'm so happy that our country has evolved past a lot of this mistrust. However, I've also realized that there is definitely still a lot of this behavior in many Americans. Hopefully, one day, we can all get past the barriers and hatred of things we don't understand.
I guess I don't completely know how I feel, but I definitely think there were a lot of very powerful lessons throughout this book. I definitely think it would be a good book for people to read to really get a perspective on how things were then compared to today.
This particular story follows a young girl named Pia who is a German immigrant. The story touches on racism, mistrust of anyone foreign, and a very deadly virus. The story follows her on the journey of trying to survive and be reunited with her twin baby brothers. She has to deal with many people who treat her as beneath them due to her home country and her parents being gone.
There is so much I learned through reading this book that really makes me feel so blessed to live in America now, and not 100 years ago. My ancestry is those German and Irish immigrants that were treated like filth. I'm so happy that our country has evolved past a lot of this mistrust. However, I've also realized that there is definitely still a lot of this behavior in many Americans. Hopefully, one day, we can all get past the barriers and hatred of things we don't understand.
I guess I don't completely know how I feel, but I definitely think there were a lot of very powerful lessons throughout this book. I definitely think it would be a good book for people to read to really get a perspective on how things were then compared to today.