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Thirty Girls

9780307279316

Thirty Girls

  • ISBN 13:

    9780307279316

  • ISBN 10:

    0307279316

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 03/03/2015
  • Publisher: Vintage
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Summary

A New York Times Notable Book
An Economist Best Book of the Year


Esther Akello is one of thirty Ugandan teenage girls abducted from a Catholic boarding school by rebel bandits. Held captive by the Lord’s Resistance Army, Esther is forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities. She struggles to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane Wood is a sensual, idealistic American writer who is traveling across Africa, hoping to give a voice to young people like Esther and to find her own center.
        In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves the stories of these two astonishing young women who, as they confront displacement and heartbreak, are hurtled inexorably closer to one another. With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa’s struggles and beauty, Susan Minot gives us her most brilliant novel yet.

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