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van Leeuwen, Joke

The Day My Father Became a Bush

104 pp. | Gecko | September, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-877579-48-6 $16.95
(2) 4-6 Translated by Bill Nagelkerke. The narrator of this quirky story describes two terrible results of her country's war, one of which is that she's sent to live with her estranged mother in a neighboring country. The narrator's naive clarity of voice creates an engaging critique on the idiocies of conflict and bureaucracy. Liberally endowed with comic, ironic cartoon drawings.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2014

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