Pioneer Girl

When I read the synopsis of this book I think I was expecting something completely different. I was expecting a book about a complicated relationship between a young Vietnamese woman and her mother. A woman looking for her place in life when all she knew was school.

What I got was a dry biography of Laura and Rose Ingalls. Maybe if I had read the Little House On The Prairie books as a child I would have found this interesting. Maybe if I had even watched and enjoyed the show, but I didn't so most of this did not appeal to me at all.

Added to the history of the Ingalls woman the characters just infuriated me. Lee's older brother was just an entitled jerk, her mother an unforgiving manipulative woman and Lee herself was without any passion or backbone.

The only tidbit I did find interesting was that Rose Wilder Lane had once lived in San Jose on a farm. I'm curious where her farm was....