![]() ![]() Although some readers may find the girl's initial naivete as hard to swallow as her abrupt awakening to violence, most will overlook these minor weaknesses as the story's tension rapidly mounts. The author personalizes the Kurdish experience by sensitively portraying Tara's feelings of loss, degradation and uprootedness. Stripped of their dignity and still not out of danger, the family plots to leave the continent, despite slim chances of asylum. Their refuge is short-lived, however bombs begin to drop and they flee across the Iranian border to a primitive refugee camp. ![]() When her Kurdish father is sought by the secret police, Tara and her family abandon their home and head north to the mountains. After witnessing a teen's brutal murder and meeting a wounded revolutionary, 12-year-old Tara begins to realize the extent of persecution in her native Iraq. ![]() Laird weaves compelling facts about the conflicts between the Arabs and the Kurds into her gripping tale about one family's escape to freedom. ![]()
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