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The Good Braider (2012)

by Terry Farish(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0761462678 (ISBN13: 9780761462675)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Marshall Cavendish

review 1: From war-torn Sudan through a refugee journey to the difficulty of making a new life in a new nation, Parish skillfully gives us 16-year-old Viola, heart and soul. The book is written in free verse, and Parish knows how to make few words count. In spite of the horrific acts Viola witnesses, the loved ones she loses, and the cultural strife that occurs with her mother as VIola tries to feel at home in Maine, this young woman is a survivor in all senses of the word. Readers will get a broad view of the Sudanese civil war and glimpse how traumatic life can be for refugees both in their homeland and in their new life in another culture.
review 2: In free-verse poems, Viola, 16, remembers being driven from home in the brutal Sudanese civil war, then the long, baref... moreoot trek to Khartoum and Cairo, escaping land mines and suffering hunger along the way, until at last she and her mother get refugee status, board a plane, and join her uncle in Portland, This is an honest account of modern refugee immigration, companion to "The lost boys of the Sudan." less

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