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(More customer reviews)I had very high expectations for Barry Denenberg's latest addition to the Dear America series and was slightly disappointed with Early Sunday Morning. Maybe it was due to the fact that the Pearl Harbor craze had died down a couple of months ago, and wasn't as hot as it was in May with the movie, and numerous other books. One of the drawbacks was it being rather short, at times I felt some parts of the novel lacking details, ect. And obviously not giving anything away, the very end was so vague. But overall I liked the characters and the story as a whole a lot.
The novel starts out in October of 1941 in Washington D.C. Her father is a newspaperman, so her family is always moving around and Amber resents the fact that she doesn't ever get to stay in one place, and having to meet new friends. When her father is re-located to Pearl Harbor, she, along with the rest of her family, is shocked, but they go. Amber grows to love the lush tropical paradise. But when that infamous day comes, Amber's life changes forever.
I read Early Sunday Morning two days before our own infamous day in the 21st century, and recommend this to old and young alike, especially with what our country is going through now and what it went through 60 years ago.
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