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Story for a Black Night
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780618494835
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: Oct 25 2004
Pages: 97
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.02 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
One dark night, an African father tells the story of another black night long ago when he, Momo, was a small boy--when he lay awake in his house in the bush, with his mother and grandmother and baby sister--when there came a knock on the door and evil crashed into his world. He tells of his strong, loving, gentle-hearted mother and her suffering to the very edge of death. And he tells of the old giant cottonwood tree that stood as a life spirit to them all. It is a story of beauty and tragedy, of a family confronting danger and dilemma, of a people enduring disorder and change. Its drama will hold the reader spellbound to the end.
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