Jane Petrlik Smolik
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Jane Petrlik Smolik grew up in Cape Elizabeth and now summers in Scarborough with her husband and two children
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“Currents” links together the lives of three girls living in 1854. Bones is a slave on a Virginia plantation; Bess is a Lord’s daughter in England; and Mary Margaret is an Irish immigrant living in Boston. Although they never meet, their lives are connected through a message in a bottle, which originates from Bones.
Smolik presents readers with a well-researched and historically accurate account of mid 1800s life in each of these three communities. Readers learn not only about the main characters, but about the lives of background characters, and how things came to be (e.g. a concise history of the slave trade, the Irish potato famine, etc.)
The book falters a bit in its delivery. Each girl’s story could have benefitting from tighter editing, as I found they were each slow to start. I’m wondering if a younger reader would have the patience to stick with the book.
Overall 2.75 stars rounded up to 3.
Thank you to NetGalley and Charlesbridge for a galley of the book in exchange for an honest review
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