Australian author Lucy Treloar’s Wolfe Island, a dystopian novel set in Chesapeake Bay, is this month’s starting point for Six Degrees of Separation, which is organized by Kate. It sounds interesting but due to a busy semester, I was not able to add it to this month’s reading. It does seem unusual that an Australian author would set a book in Virginia (or Maryland!) and name her narrator Kitty Hawke, which is a play on a famous North Carolina coastal town. Maybe I will understand her reasoning when I read the book! I notice all my books this month are by women - unintentional but interesting.
My first book is Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (1947). Set on the Virginia coast like Wolfe Island, this is a famous children’s book, a runner-up for the Newbery Award, about the wild ponies on the island town of Chincoteague, Virginia. I was not a big "horse book" reader but all of Henry's books were in my school and city libraries.
