![]() ![]() But whenever I read about how Ma viewed Indians, I would feel a kind of nameless anger. ![]() education system, I had been subject to the “single story” (as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls it in her seminal TED talk) of the American pioneer and frontier experience. Like most of us who went through the U.S. I was a re-reader, so I remember anticipating those pages, then holding them together as I turned them, so I could skip reading them. I don’t think it’s something I could have articulated as a child, but I did know that I was uncomfortable reading many passages. In your closing author’s note, you refer to Prairie Lotus as “an attempt at a painful reconciliation” between your childhood love for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series and your adult knowledge of racism. ![]() For Hanna, whose late mother was Chinese, her immediate difference is an additional challenge to gaining some semblance of acceptance. It’s set in 1880, as Hanna Edmunds arrives in LaForge, in the Dakota Territory, with her merchant father, both hoping to set down roots. She’s since published dozens of titles (Gondra’s Treasure Forest of Wonders Yaks Yak ) for children of all ages, but Prairie Lotus might be the book that’s taken her the longest to write. Almost two decades have passed since Linda Sue Park became the first Korean American – and only the second Asian American – to win the Newbery Medal, in 2002 for A Single Shard. ![]()
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