The good braider

By Terry Farish

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, African americans, fiction, Maine, fiction, Immigrants, Sudanese Americans, Fiction, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Africa, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Refugees, History, Refugees, fiction, Mothers and daughters

Description: Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a timeline of Sudan.