Vengeance and Grace by Daniel R. Holladay

Hanna’s encounters with women of the nearby Ihanktonwan community are a treat they hint at the whole world beyond a White settler perspective, a world all children deserve to learn about.

Park brings new depth to these well-trodden tales, though, as she renders visible both the xenophobia of the town’s White residents, which ranges in expression from microaggressions to full-out assault, and Hanna’s fight to overcome it with empathy and dignity. Fans of the Little House books will find many of the small satisfactions of Laura’s stories-the mouthwatering descriptions of victuals, the attention to smart building construction, the glorious details of pleats and poplins-here in abundance. It’s 1880, and they endure challenges similar to those faced by the Ingallses and so many others: dreary travel through unfamiliar lands, the struggle to protect food stores from nature, and the risky uncertainty of establishing a livelihood in a new place. He considers the writing process a pleasure and hopes to enlighten and entertain a broad demographic with his work.A “half-Chinese and half-white” girl finds her place in a Little House–inspired fictional settler town.Īfter the death of her Chinese mother, Hanna, an aspiring dressmaker, and her White father seek a fresh start in Dakota Territory.

Holladay has one son, who works in the Department of State and a wife of nearly 50 years. His many life experiences, his childhood in the countryside of West Tennessee and his extensive formal education have provided him with the expertise to write this book, to entertain, teach and involve the reader, with accuracy, emotion and wit. Daniel has traveled extensively in the United States and Western Europe. He has been a hunter, a tennis player for more than thirty years, and a University Tennis Coach. He worked as a cancer researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN, then spent 20 years as a Federal Investigator, and eight years as a Deputy Sheriff. Daniel R Holladay DVM is a native Tennessean, a multi-degreed historian, mathematician, chemist, Veterinarian, Public Health Officer for the USDA, ex law enforcement, Federal Investigator and full-time author.

Vengeance and Grace by Daniel R. Holladay