Description
Whatever happened to Dorothy After Oz? In this story, eleven-year-old Dorothy is found a few days after the tornado, unharmed, but full of tales of a magical land of witches, wizards, and munchkins. When the body of a local spinster is found dead with her face melted just as Dorothy described accidentally killing the Wicked Witch, suspicions mount in this small Kansas town. Dorothy is immediately convicted and sent to an insane asylum, where Dr. Evelyn Wilford meets her and starts her quest to discover what really happened.
This was a well-written tale about the realities of life in the late nineteenth century. It focuses on everyone else’s point of view except for Dorothy’s. The author did a wonderful job showing how crazy Dorothy’s tale would seem in a Bible-believing small town in Kansas in 1896. The author also made the conditions of asylums of that time clear, so that you can’t help but cheer on Dr. Wilford as she attempts to help Dorothy heal and escape that place. I highly recommend to those who love the tales of Oz, but also to those who enjoy mysteries, especially from the Victorian era.
