Tuesday Tea: Share the title of a work of historical fiction that you love.
Heck yeah, literary time travel
While we continue our work on building a time machine here at Strong Sense of Place HQ, we have to rely on books to take us to other eras and places. So grateful for historical fiction that zaps us into the past and shows us the connections between there and here.
If you’ve listened to our show for a while, you know that I’m a ride-or-die for Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy (100% yes to this re-imagined version of Thomas Cromwell) and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (mid-20th-century Barcelona). Oh! And The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova (1990s and post-WWII Bulgaria).
If Dave were writing this, he would make a strong case for A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Soviet-era Moscow) and Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand (1915 Chicago).
All the Light We Cannot Sea by Anthony Doerr is one of my favorites of all time. A WWII novel about a French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect during the war.
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon