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Ebook About AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." — Houston ChronicleThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond the seas,” Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land. During the journey on a repurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangeline strikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils who was sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny where Evangeline is guileless, Hazel—a skilled midwife and herbalist—is soon offering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety of favors. Though Australia has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government in the 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views the natives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, their land seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, the orphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted by the new governor of Van Diemen’s Land. In this gorgeous novel, Christina Baker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in a beautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a fresh perspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. While life in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some, an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom. Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story of grace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and the unfettering of legacy.Book The Exiles: A Novel Review :
In her author's note, Christina Baker Kline says The Exiles was a project about feminism, and the book itself shows a heartrending story about the realities and redemptions of being female in a rough era and location. Well, "rough" isn't exactly the word for it. It's more like, "harsh and unforgiving in the extreme." But the fact that one woman, let alone three, could survive to tell their stories in that environment, even in fiction, makes The Exiles compelling.As another reviewer noted, the characters of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna, as well as secondary characters like Olive, are typical, though I hesitate to say "stereotypical" because of how they handle their situations. Each woman possesses dimension, personality, and a spark that helps you get behind her. For example, you cringe when Evangeline initially worsens her situation on purpose--but then, what else would any of us do in that circumstance? You're not surprised to learn Hazel lived a hardscrabble life, but you find yourself intrigued at her depth of maturity, knowledge of herbal medicine, and present, but understated, feminism. Although these characters did not get the journey or development I wanted, which I'll get to in a minute, I enjoyed getting to know them.Mathinna is another character I enjoyed getting to know, although I felt the need to separate my discussion of her because she's largely separate from the rest of the story. In fact, Mathinna is a big reason I docked stars. She has little connection to Hazel and none to Olive, Evangeline, or even Ruby. She is, instead, yanked from her home to be "civilized" and gawked at, to the point that English "ladies" ask her guardian things like, "Does it speak?" It, for mercy's sake. "IT." I did appreciate Mathinna's plotline for showing the inherent, sanctioned, systemic racism of her culture, but...that's all it was. Mathinna was never allowed to become happy, successful, or even much of a developed character, which I think sends a bad message to women of color. You could argue Evangeline didn't fare much better, and that would be true. But at least, in some measure, she had an identity of her own and some measure of hope to cling to, misplaced though that could be.The overall plot, including Mathinna's thread, does do a great job of showing women who fight to keep their spirits alive in the worst of circumstances. These women make horrible choices at times, but what else were they meant to do? They also make brave, self-sacrificing choices that let you cheer for them, and they have searing, yet bitingly honest outlooks on their situations. For instance, The Exiles gets pretty graphic with descriptions of bodily fluids and functions, because these women have no dignity or privacy for more than 80% of the novel. But Evangeline makes a keen observation that the very things these women try to hide are the ones that bind them together. And in a world that thinks the worst of them simply for being female, "together" is as good as it's gonna get most of the time.Okay, so with that said, what didn't I like? Well again, Mathinna's plot thread was a biggie because she's included yet not included; Christina wasted a perfectly good character. Actually though, the plot thread problem persists throughout the novel. Christina called the threads "disparate" in her author's note, and--well, they are, almost to the point that the three protagonists are completely unconnected. Ruby ties Hazel and Evangeline together somewhat, but to me, it all felt rather thin.Another issue, at least for me, was the bleak nature of the story. I didn't mind the prison setting at all, and I understand novels like this are meant to be gritty. Grit works great here. What doesn't, is the unrelenting agony our characters go through, often with no hint of justice or compassion in sight. Throw in the urine, the feces, the sex, the ribald talk, and it does drag the story down in places. Most notably, these women spend so much time being browbeaten and punished, they don't have a chance to grow much or rise above the places they are shoved into. I wanted more empowerment than I got, basically. Maybe that's unrealistic for a novel set in a penal system, but well...*Spoiler ahead*.Finally, I have to admit I hated Evangeline's arc. She was the character I identified with most and rooted for the most, and then suddenly...she was gone. Moreover, her death was written in such a way that for most of the book, I expected Christina to pull a fast one and reveal she was actually alive. But that never happened, even though the writing seemed to indicate it would. And while Evangeline gets justice through Hazel's murder of Danny Buck, it feels hollow. Understand I don't blame Hazel at all after what that man put everybody through, but there's a part of me that says, "Do two wrongs make a right?" Maybe if it was more clearly in self defense...Anyway, I didn't love this book as much as Orphan Train. I'm unsure what Christina Baker Kline was trying to say about feminism and empowerment, since most of her characters are so thoroughly un-empowered. But if you're looking for something that will make you think, with an uncommon setting and more than one protagonist, I'd say you'll probably like The Exiles. This entire story felt disjointed to me. I loved all the main characters. But I wanted more from each woman’s individual story. Evangeline’s story came to an abrupt end. Mathinna (who was a main character for the first 2/3 of the book) just vanished from the story line, only to make a brief appearance later and then vanish again. Hazel was definitely the most well developed character but her life was tied up in a neat little package and that was all for Hazel. I assume Ruby was the one who was supposed to tie up all the loose ends but it didn’t work for me and at that point the book was over. Just over. All in all I was pretty disappointed with this much anticipated book. 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