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![]() It would be the crazy stuff of fantasy if it weren’t based on the appalling true story of the Saint Louis World’s Fair.Īuthor Candy Gourlay turns history’s tables around so the narrator in her newest YA book is a young independent-minded Igorot, Luki, a Bontok woman who goes to America not as a consequence of subjugation but an act of rebellion. In the vividly imagined novel, “Wild Song,” Igorots are trafficked from their mountain villages to 1904 racist America so they can entertain white people in a “human zoo” with their dances and farming rituals. ![]()
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