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Jan 04, 2018wendyjotaylor rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
What confusion Ms. Ko has about matching technology to actual timeline. It is unbelievable that her editors did not pick up on this!!! On page 179 Polly "takes out her phone to call Yi Ba" Unfortunate that Ms. Ko has assigned a cell phone to make the call when there were no cell phones 20 years ago. Hard to understand? Believe it or not, kids. There were NO CELL PHONE 20 YEARS AGO.. So.. how would our heroine make a call to China?? Pay phones were still around. Nobody could record the twin towers falling in NYC when it happened even 17 years ago. Why? No cell phones yet and certainly no cell phones with cameras. So, if Ms. Ko wants to continue her narrative about Daniel's Mom phoning Grandfather in China to find out he has died of a heart attack? It was from a land line or a pay phone. If she whipped out her cell phone, it would have weighed about 3 lbs. They were in their infancy at that point. Good try, though. Good try. So read this book with a grain of made up salt. It does not follow any actual timeline.