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An impossible-to-put-down important read about the Serbian-Croatian war and its impact on children, specifically one, the narrator, Ana.
Ana's story is full of love and strength, sorrow and loneliness. She is a true heroine who survives what most would think unsurvivable and eventually leaves her country of birth and the only world she has ever known to land in America.
During this timeframe, 1991-1995, I wasn't paying attention, preoccupied with my own war: living in Israel, First Gulf War, and the false promise of peace that followed. Thank you, Sara Novic, for waking me up and reminding me of our shared struggles.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But when civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, football games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills.
The brutal ethnic cleansing of Croats and Bosnians tragically changes Ana's life, and she is lost to a world of genocide and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America becomes her…