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Christian Dittus |
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THIS THING CALLED THE FUTURE
Book 1 in the Zulu Girl Series
Kirkus Best Teen Book of 2011
Bank Street Best Books of 2012,
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book as well as the
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.
Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother "Gogo" her little sister Zi and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere warn of the disease of the day. Her Gogo goes to a traditional healer when there is trouble, but her mother, who works in another city, who is wasting away before their eyes, refuses to go even to the doctor. She is afraid and Khosi doesn't know what it is that makes the blood come up from her choking lungs. Witchcraft? A curse? AIDS? Can Khosi take her to the doctor? Gogo asks. No, says Mama, Khosi must stay in school. Only education will save Khosi and Zi from the poverty and ignorance of the old Zulu ways.
School, though, is not bad. There is a boy her own age there, Little Man Ncobo, and she loves the color of his skin, so much darker than her own, and his blue-black lips, but he mocks her when a witch's curse, her mother's wasting sorrow and a neighbor's accusations send her and Gogo scrambling off to the sangoma's hut in search of a healing potion.
Bank Street Best Books of 2012,
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult Book as well as the
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.
Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother "Gogo" her little sister Zi and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere warn of the disease of the day. Her Gogo goes to a traditional healer when there is trouble, but her mother, who works in another city, who is wasting away before their eyes, refuses to go even to the doctor. She is afraid and Khosi doesn't know what it is that makes the blood come up from her choking lungs. Witchcraft? A curse? AIDS? Can Khosi take her to the doctor? Gogo asks. No, says Mama, Khosi must stay in school. Only education will save Khosi and Zi from the poverty and ignorance of the old Zulu ways.
School, though, is not bad. There is a boy her own age there, Little Man Ncobo, and she loves the color of his skin, so much darker than her own, and his blue-black lips, but he mocks her when a witch's curse, her mother's wasting sorrow and a neighbor's accusations send her and Gogo scrambling off to the sangoma's hut in search of a healing potion.
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Published 2011-04-01 by Cinco Puntos Press |