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Say You're One of Them
(2009)
-- 2009
Oprah Book Club
selection
Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays
tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the
most agonizing circumstances.
A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find
gifts of any kind of the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl
relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid
unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle's
attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees -- a
microcosm of today's Africa -- a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a
treacherous ride across Nigeria. Through the eyes of childhood friends,
the emotional toll of religious conflict in Ethiopia becomes viscerally
clear.
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