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This was an interesting read. It is incredibly sad but does touch on an important topic–the discrimination against minorities and women’s rights. Reading this book will show you how far our society has come, but some similarities with today’s standards remind us that we have far to go.

The book starts out in an orphanage and then through several flashbacks shows the events that lead to the child being placed there. The story is about the injustice and tragedy in the mother’s (Willow’s) life. It is an eye-opening account of the harsh realities that ‘polite society’ places on women–but not on the men that are equally (or more) to blame.

You will want to reach into the pages of this book to make things right again. The author does try to make a happy ending, but it is clear that these characters will continue to suffer after the last page of the book is read.
My fours star rating is due to some facts that the reader already knows being repeated unnecessarily.

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Songs of Willow Frost A Novel Jamie Ford 9780345522023 Books Reviews

This is a heartfelt and thought-provoking novel, which takes place in Seattle, during the 1920's & 30's. First, the author's descriptions of Seattle were absolutely spot-on--EXCELLENT! I live & work in Seattle and this man really did his homework. He goes into detail, without detracting from the story. You don't find yourself say, Enough already!

The story itself is sad and heartfelt, without being melodramatic. The characters are well developed and the story is paced well. it alternates between the mid 1920's & mid 1930's, as a mother tries to explain to her young son why she gave him up for adoption. The author does a great job weaving together the time periods. There are also details about Chinese culture that I found very interesting. I am not Chinese, or of any far-Eastern ancestry. The details provided by the author interested me enough to do a bit of Google searching. The historical details about the early movie industry was also fascinating. Take a journey to early 20th century Seattle with this excellent novel!
I loved the cultural perspective of an American-Chinese woman, and the struggles of orphans who'd been abandoned. I enjoyed the orphan's viewpoint. I found the voice of the orphans overly wise, and wondered how old these kids were, but it didn't bother me, because I recognized their wisdom as the device the writer used to explore issues of abandonment. I found the nun who ran the orphanage one-dimensional and too mean. On the other hand, my mother who was raised in an orphanage in England in the 1900s expressed extraordinary (to us today) deprivation. (When people sent sweets, they were put in a room and allowed to mold. Kids didn't get any).
Willow's story is sad but also realistic about the plight of powerless women.
I recommend reading it.
This is the second Jamie Ford book I've read. and it didn't disappoint! I love his technique of writing about "then" and "now" until gradually the timelines meet at the end. He has a wonderful way of getting into his characters' hearts and souls as he creates stories of survival in hard times and connections that are never lost. He skillfully weaves his tales using actual events and places which helps to draw the reader into the plot. Looking for another Jamie Ford book, now!
Jamie Ford’s second novel Songs of Willow Frost was met with much anticipation. I fell in love with his first novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and so I anxiously awaited the debut of his second book. I set my to download it at midnight. No joke.

I desperately wanted to fall in love the way I did with Hotel. I wanted to ache with the characters, smile at their triumphs, and ultimately weep for the bittersweet end. Hotel gave me all of this and more, but unfortunately Willow Frost did not. Don’t get me wrong, Jamie Ford’s writing is just as incredible and beautiful as it was the first time, and I think his descriptions are possibly even more vivid and alive. He brought Seattle’s China Town to life in gorgeous color, even for someone who has never been there. His writing is exemplary and talented in a way that few authors today are able to emulate. And yet.

I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but I will say that Willow Frost was filled with heartbreak in an unspeakable way. Ford’s talent is found in his ability to make one tragedy after another still seem believable and not too far fetched, but there was so much utter horror in many of the tragedies that it was truly a difficult book to read. After one particular event, which I’m sure any one who has read it or will read it will know exactly to which I am referring, I had to put the book down for a week before I had the strength to pick it back up again. It was too horrific and too terrible to deal with. And I don’t say these things to negate Ford’s genius in any way or say these are reasons not to love the novel, because he was able to deal with some truly awful subjects that are and were unfortunately realities in our world. But the magnitude was often hard to bear.

The main reason I think I could not fall in love with Willow Frost was because I did not fall in love with the characters. One in particular, again I don’t want to spoil it, seemed not to live up to her potential. And at the end of the novel, I wasn’t sure how Ford wanted us to feel about her. Were we supposed to despise her? Pity her? Love her? Personally, I was almost disgusted by her and her lack of strength. But I wasn’t sure if that was Ford’s goal or not. Which is why I believe I was unsatisfied with the ending. After all of the heartbreak and all of the tragedy, the ending didn’t feel like enough. It wouldn’t have been enough for me and I don’t believe it was enough for William. But again, what was Ford’s purpose in ending the novel the way he did?

Ford beautifully creates a poverty stricken, tragedy-ridden landscape for his second novel. He takes us into the lives and hearts of William, Charlotte, and Willow, who seem to be more representatives of Seattle’s inhabitants during the Depression rather than fully fleshed out characters themselves. And if this was Ford’s intent, he succeeded perfectly. If it was not, there were just a few things missing to make me believe in the hope he tries to provide at the end. Songs of Willow Frost is most definitely worth the read, and it is a novel that will stay with you after you have finished the journey. I don’t believe it is as remarkable as Hotel, but perhaps I am biased. Hotel captured my heart in a way that no other contemporary novel has. Songs of Willow Frost was tragically beautiful, and for this reason it was harder to love completely.
This was an interesting read. It is incredibly sad but does touch on an important topic–the discrimination against minorities and women’s rights. Reading this book will show you how far our society has come, but some similarities with today’s standards remind us that we have far to go.

The book starts out in an orphanage and then through several flashbacks shows the events that lead to the child being placed there. The story is about the injustice and tragedy in the mother’s (Willow’s) life. It is an eye-opening account of the harsh realities that ‘polite society’ places on women–but not on the men that are equally (or more) to blame.

You will want to reach into the pages of this book to make things right again. The author does try to make a happy ending, but it is clear that these characters will continue to suffer after the last page of the book is read.
My fours star rating is due to some facts that the reader already knows being repeated unnecessarily.

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