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Widely heralded for
her sharp historian’s eye, her ear for authentic
dialogue, and her knack for creating endearing characters,
Sandra and her fiction have received international acclaim.
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Tallgrass, Sandra’s seventh novel, is the story of a
13-year-old girl whose Colorado farm family lives next to Tallgrass,
a Japanese relocation camp, during World War II. Rennie’s
life already has been touched by the war. A brother is in the
army, a sister works at a defense plant in Denver. But the
girl comes face-to-face with the disruption of war when the
internment camp is opened near her town. After one of her friends
is brutally murdered, Rennie learns first-hand about the fear
and bigotry caused by war. In an account that is gripping but
also has its droll moments, Rennie also understands that decency
and human dignity transcend evil, that the human heart triumphs. “Tallgrass,” Rennie
says, “became our own personal war.”
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