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A Girl Named Disaster

(1996)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1997 Newbery Medal (nominee)

While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.


Genre: Children's Fiction

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