Résultats pour "Salt" dans Passage à l'âge adulte

Koba is a bushgirl, a hunter-gatherer from an ancient living culture. She’s a survivor. She escapes death from white hunters when her family is murdered and fends for herself in a hostile land. Now, she’s in the greatest danger she’s ever faced: She’s falling for a White boy in Apartheid South Africa, where love across racial divides is brutally punished.

Nour is a young Syrian girl who has lost her father to cancer. Wanting to be close to her relatives, Nour's mother - a cartographer who makes beautiful hand-painted maps - moves her family back to the city of Homs. Nour's father was a real storyteller, and he told her that the roots of the trees connect to the ground across the world. She knows they left her father in the ground back in America, so she starts telling him the ancient fable of Rawiya, whispering it into the ground so he might hear. Rawiya left her home dressed as a boy in order to explore the world. 

Jan Fink, author of Tales from a Strange Southern Lady, offers up her first novel, Licking the Salt Block, the story of a young girl growing up with dysfunctional parents in the Deep South during the 50s and 60s when racial and social prejudices were at their peak. She struggles with the cruelty of people around her, leaving her with feelings of shame and anger that have far-reaching effects on her life.