Recent winner of the Ontario Library Association's Evergreen fiction for 2014, Cathy Marie Buchanan transported me to another place and time with this story of sisters surviving all the odds against them in 1880s Paris. I love it when a book prompts me to do more research and I've spent the week...
Andrews’s sewing room. Father appears on the stairs, and I say, “You’re up early.”“I’m off to Buffalo,” he says. “I’ve got an appointment with Mr. Micking.”My grandfather had worked in Mr. McMicking’s Buffalo tannery as a laborer, also Father as an errand boy. I know the story well—how Mr. McMick...