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Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

Christina Rickardsson,

Tara Chace (Translator)

Start date: March 1, 2020

Finish date: March 29, 2020

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Oct 06, 2021 Susan Bazzett-Griffith rated it liked it

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Quite a horrifying memoir, though an incredible story, about how a street child from San Paulo, Brazil, who lived alternatingly between the streets and a small cave in a forest until her mother brought her to an orphanage, survived and remembered her childhood even after being adopted by a wealthy family in Sweden. Trying to incorporate her two identities and worlds seems to take up the bulk of Christina'Christiana's life, and rightly so-- anyone who had seen and survived the amount of tragedy t ...more

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Dec 31, 2020 Megan rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Never Stop Walking is Christina Rickardsson’s harrowing yet hopeful memoir of her homeless childhood with her single mother and younger brother on the streets of Brazil followed by their adoption by a Swedish couple. Brazil was in an economic downturn and things were brutal.

Christina talks frankly of the terrors and privations of street life. There are fights over food scraps, domestic violence and sexual assault. She witnesses the murder of her best friend; militia routinely executed street ki ...more

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