The First Emma

Tremendous Work. What happens when an author wants to write about a fascinating real world person, but there is precious little documentation of that real-world person's life? Well, if you're Camille Di Maio, you dig up what you can and you use your considerable story telling abilities to make a plausible story that tells that person's story in a way that it is the driving focus of the book, but ultimately not the real subject of the story. And Di Maio really does do an excellent job of this with the story telling approach she decided on here. Truly fascinating woman, this Emma Koehler. And Di Maio really does her story justice. Very much recommended.