It blew my mind reading the author’s note at the end and seeing the inspiration for the story. I also loved that this story was loosely based off the six Titanic survivors who are of Chinese descent. It made me happy to see a few allies in the mix. And although they were faced with a lot of discrimination, there were also people on board who looked beyond their ethnicity and befriended them. It wasn’t only Valora, Jamie, and the boys who are discriminated against and it made sense with the story. Naturally, we’ve seen these class wars in movies like Titanic, but what Titanic failed to recognize was the level of discrimination people of color from third class were faced. It was interesting to see the dichotomy between first class and third class. It was also quite fun especially when she’s fooling the rich folks that she’s also rich and white. Sloane in first class, I loved seeing her dynamically navigate through those different worlds. Watching Valora pull off being a boy to hang out with her brother and his friends in third class to pretending to be Mrs. While it was slow burning, I also remembered this story takes place on the Titanic and perhaps it was more the anticipation of what happens to the ship that made it feel slow.
This was a slow burning story about young Valora Luck a Chinese British person who’s trying to get to America and become an acrobat in the Ringling Bros Circus. Stacey Lee, master of historical fiction, brings a fresh perspective to an infamous tragedy, loosely inspired by the recently uncovered account of six Titanic survivors of Chinese descent. Then, one moonless night in the North Atlantic, the unthinkable happens–the supposedly unsinkable ship is dealt a fatal blow–and Val and her companions suddenly find themselves in a race to survive. But in the rigidly stratified world of the luxury liner, Val’s ruse can only last so long, and after two long years apart, it’s unclear if Jamie even wants the life Val proposes. Quick-thinking Val talks her way into opulent firstclass accommodations and finds Jamie with a group of fellow Chinese laborers in third class. Southampton, 1912: Seventeen-year-old British-Chinese Valora Luck has quit her job and smuggled herself aboard the Titanic with two goals in mind: to reunite with her twin brother Jamie–her only family now that both their parents are dead–and to convince a part-owner of the Ringling Brothers Circus to take the twins on as acrobats.
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