Yet because of Park’s empathy, understanding of the complexity of the coming together of cultures, and wonderful ability to create memorable characters, the readers of her story will see that time and place in an entirely different, more complex, and more realistic way. It’s a vivid picture of a setting, Dakota Territory, and a period, the 1880s, which has been the focus of countless westerns. Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father’s shop, and making at least one friend.

Quantities are limited and are available while supplies last. Rather than picturing the hard struggle to settle a “frontier,” the book deals with relations between people of many backgrounds-European American, Native American and Asian American-as seen through the eyes of her beautifully realized main character, whose mixed ancestry never holds her back. This edition of Prairie Lotus is signed by author Linda Sue Park. However, quite unlike Wilder’s books, her non-European characters are neither stereotypes nor peripheral to the story. It deals with a theme-the development of the West- familiar to fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder. If anything, this may be her most ambitious and best book yet. Even when dealing with truly sensitive subject matter, she always manages to bring out the basic humanity in her characters in ways that make her work accessible to readers of all ages. A half-Chinese and half-white girl finds her place in a Little Houseinspired fictional. Linda Sue Park is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning A Single Shard, the best-seller A Long Walk to Water, and the highly-praised novel Prairie Lotus. “I have always admired the subtle power and gentle clarity of Linda Sue Park’s writing. by Linda Sue Park RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2020.

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