In the hope of inheriting a better life, a mother makes the heartbreaking decision to send one child, Nyakale, to South Africa to be raised by her well-off sister. The other child, Achen, stays in Uganda to be raised by their mother in a village. This is a richly told and deeply intimate African story about the coming of age of two young women who are the same as much as they are different. When the sisters finally cross their respective worlds to meet, how mirrored will each feel about the other?
An Image in a Mirror by Ijangolet S. Ogwang
In the hope of inheriting a better life, a mother makes the heartbreaking decision to send one child, Nyakale, to South Africa to be raised by her well-off sister. The other child, Achen, stays in Uganda to be raised by their mother in a village. This is a richly told and deeply intimate African story about the coming of age of two young women who are the same as much as they are different. When the sisters finally cross their respective worlds to meet, how mirrored will each feel about the other?
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