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Civil war rages in Liberia as a father flees his hometown with 3 little daughters & his in-laws through the jungle. His wife--and the author's mother--is in the US studying in university with a Fulbright scholarship. This is memoir begins with the author at 5 years old, not completely understanding what is happening around here--"drums" are really gunfire; people "sleeping" all over the roads are dead people--killed by the violent rebels seeking to overthrow the powers that be (this was during t
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