Verlag:
Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, Mankon [Cameroon]
Protagonist Finaís search for happiness and belonging begins on the night of her aborted circumcision and continues through her teenage years in Freetown, Sierra Leoneís capital; her twenties in the Washington Metropolitan Area; and ends with her...
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Protagonist Finaís search for happiness and belonging begins on the night of her aborted circumcision and continues through her teenage years in Freetown, Sierra Leoneís capital; her twenties in the Washington Metropolitan Area; and ends with her return to Sierra Leone to work as an advocate for war-traumatized children. The novel explores the problems she encounters in each setting against the backdrop of the tensions, ambiguities, and fragmentation of the stranger/immigrant condition and the charactersí struggles to clarify their ideas about ìhomeî and ìabroad.î Finaís circumcision gets sign
