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Golden Boy
by
Tara Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
A shocking human rights tragedy brought to light in a story of heartbreak and triumph.
Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different— light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. Not the good brown skin his family has and not the white skin of tourists. Habo is strange and alone. His father, unable to accept Habo, abandons the family; his mother can scarcely look at him. His...more
Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different— light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. Not the good brown skin his family has and not the white skin of tourists. Habo is strange and alone. His father, unable to accept Habo, abandons the family; his mother can scarcely look at him. His...more
Hardcover, 368 pages
Expected publication:
June 27th 2013
by G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin
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Golden Boy
by Tara Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
by Tara Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
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How is it that a novel that illustrates a brutal practice can be one of triumph and hope? How can one recommend a book about human poaching to children?
Easy. Just read Tara Sullivan's GOLDEN BOY and you'll see.
In this stunning debut novel, Habo is a 13-year-old Tanzanian boy with albinism. As such, he is in constant danger, because witch doctors in that country pay top dollar for body parts of such people. And Habo is hunted by just such a poacher. Habo's journey from frightened child to a boy w...more
Easy. Just read Tara Sullivan's GOLDEN BOY and you'll see.
In this stunning debut novel, Habo is a 13-year-old Tanzanian boy with albinism. As such, he is in constant danger, because witch doctors in that country pay top dollar for body parts of such people. And Habo is hunted by just such a poacher. Habo's journey from frightened child to a boy w...more
"Is this worth dying for?" Habo asks himself at this novel's peak. The answer is yes. Not because one wants this hero just to survive. But because one loves the relationships he's built with other characters in the novel and wants to know that those will thrive.
As an albino living in Tanzania, hunted for the "good luck" properties his body parts are rumored to bring, Habo and others like him will always be in danger. Some people there consider the hunting of elephants for their ivory tusks a gr...more
As an albino living in Tanzania, hunted for the "good luck" properties his body parts are rumored to bring, Habo and others like him will always be in danger. Some people there consider the hunting of elephants for their ivory tusks a gr...more
Scheduled for release in June 2013, Tara Sullivan's "Golden Boy" is a book that is important not so much for the details of the story itself, but for the issue in the world that it represents. This is the story of Habo who is an albino living in a small village in Tanzania named Ashura. Shunned by his own father for the color of his skin, his family perseveres for a while until his mother can no longer pay the bills forcing the family to flee to an aunt's house in Mwanza. It is there that he lea...more
A disturbing book about the hunting of people (specifically albinos) in Africa because their body parts bring "luck". There are all manner of superstitions about luck charms out there, from four-leaf clovers to rabbit's feet to rhino horns to this one, apparently prevalent in Tanzania. Life's not difficult enough for Habo as an albino (living in Africa with a body unsuited to that much sun and poor vision in addition to poverty) in his village - his family is evicted from their home and they tre...more
I'm giving this three stars because the subject is fascinating, in a horrifying way--the perilous situation for albinos in Tanzania where they are in danger of being killed or mutilated so that their body parts can be used for magic spells. I don't believe any other books for young people have been published about these atrocities.
I'm giving it only three stars because the writing is less remarkable than the matter it treats.
I'm giving it only three stars because the writing is less remarkable than the matter it treats.
Recommended for fans of: YA or MG Contemporary with Substance/ African Culture
This book is amazing. Sullivan has clearly done extensive research on Albinos living in Tanzania. You are immersed in African culture, but you always feel like you belong there. Everything feels very authentic and accurate. It speak from a place that is more than just intellectually though, GOLDEN BOY feels so genuine. You feel stricken when the family is forced to leave their home, just as Habo does. You also get to g...more
This book is amazing. Sullivan has clearly done extensive research on Albinos living in Tanzania. You are immersed in African culture, but you always feel like you belong there. Everything feels very authentic and accurate. It speak from a place that is more than just intellectually though, GOLDEN BOY feels so genuine. You feel stricken when the family is forced to leave their home, just as Habo does. You also get to g...more
What a phenomenal book. This is SO different, fresh, incredibly well researched and feels so authentic. I absolutely fell in love with the protagonist and all his choices felt so believable to me. Even his thought process felt authentic--he'd use similes and metaphors that made sense based on his life experiences.
I loved looking up the places in this novel as I went, chronicling Habo's journey through Tanzania. This book is so important because I think most of us have no idea about this human ri...more
I loved looking up the places in this novel as I went, chronicling Habo's journey through Tanzania. This book is so important because I think most of us have no idea about this human ri...more
The fascinating, disturbing story of a thirteen-year-old Tanzanian albino boy.
This book! Oh, this one will be an award-winner for sure!
Shocking tale - good discussion book for 6 grade and up
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Tara Sullivan was born in India and spent her childhood living in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic with her parents who were international aid workers. She received a BA in Spanish Literature and Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia, and a MA in Latin American Studies and an MPA in Non-Profit Management from Indiana University. To research Golden Boy, Tara trav...more
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