Someone who wasn't white," writes Park, who is Korean American, in the author's note to "Prairie Lotus" (Clarion Books). Someone with black hair and dark eyes and tan skin.
"Ultimately it meant that she would never have allowed Laura to become friends with someone like me. Like countless American girls, Linda Sue Park devoured the "Little House" novels of Wisconsin native Laura Ingalls Wilder, re-reading them and imagining herself in the stories as a friend of young Laura.īut as she grew up, Park was troubled by the way those stories treated people of color, in particular Ma's hatred of Native Americans.
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