Blue Gold
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00IEK6S2M
Publish date: February 18th 2014
Publisher: Annick Press
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
In all honesty, it was difficult to make out how I felt about this book. The writing has a more juvenile feel, though it deals with incredibly heavy and triggering topics (tastefully so, I might add). I was compelled by the story, though considering it was told from three alternating points of view,...
Elizabeth Stewart’s Blue Gold shifts from North America and Fiona, to Africa and Sylvie, to Asia and Laiping. Although the subject matter is markedly different, questions of identity and complications uniquely rooted in these girls’ coming-of-age are prominent in all three narratives. Laiping’s ch...