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    Eagle & Crane: A Novel

    Written by Suzanne Rindell

    Narrated by Elizabeth Romanski

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    About this audiobook

    Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch.

    Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada—Eagle and Crane—are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas—Japanese immigrants—stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family.

    When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying tricks high above audiences, they're both drawn to Shaw's smart and appealing stepdaughter, Ava Brooks. After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and one of Shaw's planes mysteriously crashes and two charred bodies are discovered in it, authorities conclude that the victims were Harry and his father, Kenichi, who had escaped from a Japanese internment camp they had been sent to by the federal government. To the local sheriff, the situation is open and shut. But to the lone FBI agent assigned to the case, the details don't add up.

    Thus begins an investigation into what really happened to cause the plane crash, who was in the plane when it fell from the sky, and why no one involved seems willing to tell the truth. By turns an absorbing mystery and a fascinating exploration of race, family and loyalty, Eagle and Crane is that rare novel that tells a gripping story as it explores a terrible era of American history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 3, 2018
    ISBN9780525590675
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    Eagle & Crane: A Novel
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    Suzanne Rindell

    Suzanne Rindell's The Other Typist has been translated into 15 languages and Keira Knightly is producing and starring in the film adaption. Allison & Busby published Suzanne's second novel, Three-Martini Lunch, to great commercial and critical acclaim. She now divides her time between California and New York.

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    • 5/5
      Wow. A very accomplished, well organized and paced novel. While it is emotional it doesn’t try to blackmail the reader with extended scenes of racial cruelty or violence. There is just enough detail to wring empathy from the reader though - that executive order was unjust and a product of willfully ignoring facts and racism. While I am still baffled at why Japan decided to bomb the crap out of the Pacific, I don’t think people here needed to be treated that way. But that’s not what’s at the heart of the story; that’s just a fact, a thing that happened. In total it’s a little uneven, but I liked the book a lot. The set up is a good one. I like Bonner’s obfuscated connection to the Thorns. I didn’t make the Lindy/Rosalind connection right away, but when I did, and by then I knew of her relationship to Louis’s brother, Guy and so could fill in the story. Another bit of heartache to go around. The backstory about the Yamadas and the Thorns was good. She drew out the land “swindle” just to the point of my being tired of it before telling the whole story, which of course wasn’t a swindle at all. I didn’t understand Cleo and why the hell she fell for Earl Shaw and was saddened, but not surprised when he took off on them and turned out not to be who he said he was. They bounced back nicely and even though it was short-lived, I’m glad Harry and Louis had success with the reformulated Eagle & Crane show. It only made sense that it wouldn’t really have been Harry in that plane. His interest in magic as well as his slow, secret lessons with Ava foreshadowed their ultimate trick quite nicely. I like Harry’s assumption that Louis would do his best and was in fact trying very hard to be a better man - to honor his agreement and not keep the Yamada land. I think he will, but Harry and Ava’s future are anything but assured.
    • 4/5
      Of all the historical fiction about WWII I've read, this novel stands out for the way it delves into the tension between white Americans and Japanese Americans living side by side as the war began. The Thorn and Yamada families have bad blood going back generations, an old would that is only partly healed when young Louis Thorn and Harry Yamada join together to perform barnstorming stunts, a lucrative opportunity that brings them into a flying circus where they meet Ava Brooks, a young woman each carries feelings for. Louis and Harry struggle to work together and to manage their own relationship as they grapple with hostile racism Harry experiences and Louis's growing jealousy of Harry and Ava's relationship. All of which would make for enough drama, but things become more complex after the U.S. enters WWII. Harry and his family are sent to an internment camp and Louis is left to care for the Yamada family farm, which provides yet another test to his fragile friendship with Harry. Overall, this is a tense and emotional read. I really loved the characters by the end and was rooting for them. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Fascinating background that led Rindell to write this book. A wonderful description of a horrible time in our history and she has captured it in such an unusual way with this particular barnstorming story. Loved the book!! I agree with an earlier reviewer----I have now loved all three of Rindell's books.
    • 3/5
      This book never felt like a cohesive story to me, there was just a collection of bits. Part of the book follows the 1943 investigation by FBI Agent William Bonner into the crash of the biplane in which the internment camp escapees, Haruto (Harry) Yamada and his father Kenichi, were presumed to have burned to death. Bonner suspects that the crash was not an accident and that Louis was involved. There is also the 1940 story of how Harry and Louis Thorn came to join Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, and their love triangle with Earl's stepdaughter Ava Brooks. There are long chapters of backstory covering how Ava's mother came to marry Earl, detailing the histories of the Thorn and Yamada families and describing the Japanese internment camps. There is also a peculiar interlude between Bonner and his racist landlady. In addition, Bonner has a big secret that adds nothing to the story. In a book with so many pieces, I'd have thought that I would find at least some of them interesting, but I did not. I made it half way through this book and then skipped ahead to find out how the mystery turned out. Although I'm not a fan of love triangles there are parts of this book that I might have liked (particularly the story of internment camps), if so much of it hadn't felt like padding. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3.I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
    • 5/5
      This was my third book by Suzanne Rindell. And, this one did not disappoint at all. Actually, I have loved all three of her books. (I'm still waiting to see "The Typist" on film - it was picked up years ago!!)This one dealt with barnstorming and airplane rides. These people were crazy enough to climb onto the wings of these airplanes and do all sorts of tricks while up in the sky. Totally crazy!!!The book also dealt with the Japanese camps that were all over the U.S. during World War II. I had heard of this, but hadn't really heard the full extent as to what was going on with this phenomenon. When one of the characters in this book unfortunately gets involved in this, you learn a lot about it. However, it wasn't the brunt of the book and it touched on it, but not a whole lot.For me, the book was a fun loving, high flying, excellent read that I just tore through. Excellent characters and an excellent story!Thanks to Penguin Group Putnam and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
    • 4/5
      Louis and Harry are friends but yet enemies. To say their relationship is complicated is an understatement. Harry and Louis attend a flying circus. Harry decides he wants to WALK THE WING of the plane. Well! Louis is not to be outdone. They both do it and do it splendidly! They decide to join this flying circus and be stuntmen. This is just the beginning of their tale.Harry is Japanese at a time in our country’s history when it is not too popular to be Japanese. His family is ridiculed and eventually placed in an internment camp due to Executive Order 9066. He and his father escape and this puts the FBI on their trail. Then they are both killed in a plane crash…so what happened?This is just one of the great storylines in this read. The camps, the flying circus, the mystery of the plane crash kept me glued to this book. I read it in two days!The author did a fabulous job with the historical research. And there is a lot of history in this read and it ties the whole story together. How the flying circus survived, how awful the camps were, how terrible it was to be Japanese are just a few fascinating facts floating throughout this tale.The story is a little long and has a large amount of description. But, it is unique in many ways. With the flying circus, WWII, Japanese Camps and the mystery, I was hooked.
    • 5/5
      My Review of "Eagle & Crane" by Suzanne RindellKudos to Suzanne Rindell Author of "Eagle & Crane" for writing such an inspiring, intense, captivating, intense, emotional and intriguing novel. The Genres for this novel are Historical Fiction and Fiction. The timeline for this novel is around the Great Depression and the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, and World War Two. The location of the story is in California.The author describes her characters as complicated, complex, and torn by both events and family expectations. Louis Thorne and " Harry Yamada" were friends for a short time when they were little boys. Harry loved magic, and Louis loved comic book heroes.  The Thorne family believed that the "Yamada" family had stolen their land, and from that become a great hatred.Louis meets a young girl, Ava, who is selling tickets for a flying show. Louis comes back with money and reunites with Harry. Somehow the two young men become aerial stuntman doing life-threatening and dangerous acts. The two work together as a team. Despite set backs and major problems, the two become known as "Eagle" and "Crane", nick names assigned to them with a racial intonation.When the tragedy  of the  Pearl Harbor bombing occurs, the United State government puts all of the Japanese people in internment camps.  Many are Japanese Americans, both citizens and American born. This is a terrible time that is not always revealed  in history books. The homes, land, possessions were supposed to be temporarily taken away from these people. There was inadequate medical care, cramped quarters, and poor living conditions. I appreciate the research and the resources the author used to provide the information. It is both thought-provoking and very emotionally charged. . Do we learn from history?Somehow, both Harry and his father escape the camps, but there is an airplane found with two charred bodies. The local government finds it an open and close case. One FBI agent with a personal agenda suspects foul play, and starts to investigate.  Will the deep secrets between the two families be revealed?  I highly recommend this amazing novel to readers that appreciate Historical Fiction.
    • 5/5
      An excellent combination of history with a little bit of mystery, major and minor characters with wonderful depth, and a story of unflagging interest, Eagle & Crane is one of the best novels I’ve read so far this year. The rise and demise of Earl Shaw’s Flying Circus was an adventure itself, but when author Suzanne Rindell includes the long-term tension between the Thorns and the Yamadas, the history of and between the two families, WWII and the Japanese internment camps, and finally the escape and believed suicides of Kenichi and Haruto (Harry) Yamada, it became absolutely impossible for me not to become immersed in it. I loved this book!