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Dream Country
By : Shannon Gibney
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Book Synopsis :
The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom. The novel begins in suburban Minneapolis at the moment when seventeen-year-old Kollie Flomo begins to crack under the strain of his life as a Liberian refugee. He's exhausted by being at once too black and not black enough for his African American peers and worn down by the expectations of his own Liberian family and community. When his frustration finally spills into violence and his parents send him back to Monrovia to reform school, the story shifts. Like Kollie, readers travel back to Liberia, but also back in time, to the early twentieth-century and the point of view of Togar Somah, an eighteen-year-old indigenous Liberian on the run from government militias that would force him to work the plantations of the Congo people, descendants of the African-American slaves who colonized Liberia almost a century earlier. When Togar's section draws
Book Detail :
Author : Shannon Gibney
Pages : 376 pages
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0735231672
ISBN-13 : 9780735231672
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