6/10/2023 0 Comments Normal by Amy Bloom![]() ![]() She reads biographies of Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale, and remarks that "even in the books written for little girls, you could tell these women were so tough they'd take a bullet out of you with a fork and not blink." Eva is a toughie in training. Eva, the narrator of most of the book, is the younger one. She's focused on the idea of becoming an actress. Iris is the older teenager, daughter of the narrator's remarried father. ![]() How?Īmy Bloom's new novel Lucky Us takes readers across America in the 1940s, that special decade of wartime dislocation and post-war disruption - with side-trips to England and Germany - in the company of a pair of half-sisters as endearing and comically annoying as any you'll find in contemporary fiction. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Lucky Us Author Amy Bloom ![]()
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