Thirty girls
by Susan Minot
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"The Lord's Resistance Army, led by warlord Joseph Kony, has terrorised the people of northern Uganda for years, mutilating and murdering people as they raid villages, kidnapping and raping children to expand Kony's 'family'. This is the fate in store for Esther, one of the 139 students abducted from St Mary's School. Eventually she will have to learn to live with all she has seen and done to survive. Jane is an American writer, observing the glamour of Kenyan ex-pat life while she waits for transport to the border. She has come to forget her past, to lose herself in writing about what's happening to Uganda's children. But her fragile emotional state will be sorely tried by her experiences. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us vivid portraits of two women battling to wrest meaning from events that overtake them both."--Jacket.
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Child soldiers, Man-woman relationships, Single women, Crimes against, Fiction, Children and war, Young women, Abduction, Large type books, Lord's Resistance Army, Atrocities, Women journalists, Kidnapping, Fiction, general, Women journalists, fiction, Young women, fiction, Africa, fictionPlaces
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Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. Minot interweaves their stories, giving us portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways.
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