**Return to Safe Haven, where a new beginning with your first love is only a heartbeat way...** Yasmin Tanner has devoted her life to making other people's dreams come true. But between running Safe Haven's women's shelter and caring for her brother, the long days--and lonely nights--are catching
Dream Country
โ Scribed by Shannon Gibney
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom.
"Gut wrenching and incredible."-- Sabaa Tahir #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes
"This novel is a remarkable achievement."--Kelly Barnhill, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery medalist
"Beautifully epic."--Ibi Zoboi, author American Street and National Book Award finalist
Dream Country 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...
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