MISS BURMA

Author Charmaine Craig provides a tender imagined account of her own family in twentieth-century Southeast Asia. An author's narration can be a treat because she can bring her words to life in a way that no one else can. In every scene, Craig is captivating as she recounts her grandmother's quiet strength, her grandfather's desperate drive, and her mother's precociousness. Throughout the story, Craig delivers the theme of being unmoored as the characters experience a loss of place, and of self. Through her imagining of her family's multigenerational story, Craig provides a captivating historical fiction of modern Burma. M.P.P. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2017]