This is a work of historical fiction, which describes the life of a spirited young Chinese woman in 1890’s Atlanta. As you might expect, since she is not White, she faces basically the same discrimination as the African Americans she works with. At the start of the novel, she is employed at a millinery shop, Read More
Month: February 2026
Heaven’s Ditch, by Jack Kelly
The subtitle of this book is “God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal”. Much of the books is about how the Erie Canal went from being a far-fetched idea to a reality. But interspersed with the story of the canal are stories about others who lived near the route of the canal in that Read More