Retro Reads discussion

"The picnic had been Aunt Abby's idea. They had all, she said, been cooped up indoors too long...."

I love the way the villains of the piece still have valid points; Therese Tissot questions Hero about just why she had to go halfway around the world to save Zanzibar when, by all accounts, there were horribly treated slaves in her own country. Just how much good could we actually do if we tended to our own backyards...