Je participe ! Swap-bot: Interest me No. 29 - RECEIVED
I received the following from:
1- Miss Brenda who lives in St. Anthony, MN - USA
WHAT IT IS ABOUT:
One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime.
2- From Brittany (bmh92) who lives in Carrollton, TX - USA
WHAT IT IS ABOUT:
Paul Slippery is 49 years and 5 months old, and lives with his long-suffering wife in Wimbledon, together with their three children. As well as the impending birthday, Paul hears that the character he has played for 20 years in a radio soap is being killed off.
Je participe ! Swap-bot: Interest me No. 29 - SENT
For this swap, I selected the following book:
WHAT IT IS ABOUT:
Sunshine, a young Jamaican girl, is desperate to know and understand her identity. Written as a series of letters to her absent mother, "Aunt Jen" traces the changing attitudes of a child entering adulthood as she begins to realize and accept the truth behind her mother's departure. A painfully one-sided correspondence through which Sunshine hopes to understand her own past, "Aunt Jen" reveals the complex inheritance we pass on to our children.