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Little Souls: A Novel by Sandra Dallas
Sandra Dallas's Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America’s last deadly flu pandemic Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and nightly horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Ohio after their parents’ death. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at Neusteter’s department store, share a small, neat house and each finds a local beau – for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring the woman’s small daughter, Dorothy. Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. She has no doubt Helen killed the man—Dorothy’s father—in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a victim of the flu. Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiance “over there”. As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from the murder investigation and the flu. Set against the backdrop of an epidemic that feels all too familiar, Little Souls is a compelling tale of sisterhood and of the sacrifices people make to protect those they love most. Read more
I like that the author began this book long before Covid-19 hit. I’ve read several historical fiction books set during the time of the Spanish Flu, and they spoke of the pandemic being worse than it is depicted in this story. I think it may seem that way to me because the influenza was not the most major aspect of this story, though it figures prominently. I adore this author’s work! She has women’s relationships with each other down pat. I love that she is historically accurate, as well. The way she excels in this novel is through her accuracy with social history. She wrote slang of the times into her dialogue painlessly. I feel like I know what it was like to be in my early 20’s in Denver in 1922. She writes of fashions, slang, songs, and news reports in a way that rings natural and true. Everything I checked out for historical accuracy passed the test. I will miss the characters of this book now that I’ve finished it. That’s always a sign of a very recommendable novel.
ASIN -> B092T8L15J Publisher -> St. Martin's Press (April 26, 2022) Publication date -> April 26, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 2901 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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