The scenes are painted so vividly it feels like you really are walking the streets of New York in the 1940s. Once I really got into the book, I didn’t want to stop. It’s the type of book that makes you forget that you are just reading. Each one has a very distinct personality to the point that I periodically forgot that these are not real people. The author’s greatest strength in this book is the characters. From then on she is slowly whisked into a community of people that she didn’t even know existed. She meets Juliana, and she is immediately drawn to her. It isn’t long before her plans start to unravel. Al moves from the country and her parents to New York City to become an actress with her childhood friends, Danny, Aggie, and Dickie. I found myself feeling heartbroken, furious, embarrassed, and enticed all through the eyes of the first person narrator, Al. It’s not very often that a work of fiction will really speak to my heart, but this book certainly did. Juliana by Vanda is a Historical Fiction novel about LGBT people in the 1940s.
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