The thick soup of smoke had thinned to a veil of black. Why should I expect people to care now, just because Father had died? I turned to glare at the two women, only now noticing the crowd that had gathered. My face flushed at her commenting on this rather than on Father’s death. “They sold the Whistle to a Chinaman?” asked another woman. “Place just lit up,” said a woman from behind.
“SHE’S BEEN STANDING THERE OVER AN HOUR,” a man muttered to another as they passed by. We're excited to bring you Chapters 2 and 3 (you'll have to get the book for Chapter 1!) and hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did. Full of carefully researched details and fun dialogue, the story is ultimately about the friendship between two girls, and how they help each other in a journey to come into their own. In a genre saturated with stories of young white men making their fortune, Stacey Lee's book is a welcome new perspective on the traditional Western novel. The two are brought together by tragedy and decide to head west, where they encounter cowboys and fugitives along the way. Stacey Lee's novel, published last month, follows two teenage girls during the late 1800's - a Chinese American girl with dreams of pursuing a music career, and a runaway slave girl hoping to reunite with her brother.
For April, we bring you an excerpt of Stacey Lee's novel about two girls on the run along the Oregon Trail.
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