Just finished reading a wonderful book A Princess Found, I am going to attempt to tell you a little about it, definitely request it from you library if you have time.
I know I have many friends that try to stay informed about the rest of the world, and fight against the norm of getting stuck in their little bubble of life to busy to look left or right.
This book opens your eyes to the atrocities that took place during the eleven year civil war in war torn countries in Africa. It gives a glimpse of before and the after affects the ravages of the war waged on the people.
It also talks of a young girl that lives in West Virginia who was adopted when she was one, it weaves her life for us and the struggles she faced being biracial and adopted by a white family. How she meets her father in Sierra Leone and finally understands what it feels to be accepted by family and through that accepts the responsibility laid on her because now she knows.
This book really resonated with me, Sarah expressed her fears about meeting her birth father, even though I wasn't adopted I still did not get to know my birth father until I was a young woman. I remember the thoughts and fears I had so well and there were so many similarities.
You won't be disappointed with this book, it's an easy read, but at the same time challenges you to think, outside of what is comfortable to you.
I know I have many friends that try to stay informed about the rest of the world, and fight against the norm of getting stuck in their little bubble of life to busy to look left or right.
This book opens your eyes to the atrocities that took place during the eleven year civil war in war torn countries in Africa. It gives a glimpse of before and the after affects the ravages of the war waged on the people.
It also talks of a young girl that lives in West Virginia who was adopted when she was one, it weaves her life for us and the struggles she faced being biracial and adopted by a white family. How she meets her father in Sierra Leone and finally understands what it feels to be accepted by family and through that accepts the responsibility laid on her because now she knows.
This book really resonated with me, Sarah expressed her fears about meeting her birth father, even though I wasn't adopted I still did not get to know my birth father until I was a young woman. I remember the thoughts and fears I had so well and there were so many similarities.
You won't be disappointed with this book, it's an easy read, but at the same time challenges you to think, outside of what is comfortable to you.
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