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This is a gripping story that is a finalist for the 2015 Read Across Rhode Island selection. It takes place during the terrible period of apartheid in South Africa in 1976. Isaac Muthethe is smuggled across the border to Botswana in the bottom of a hearse, after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force. Near the border in Botswana he runs into an old acquaintance, Amen, who invites Isaac to stay in his home with his wife and baby. Unfortunately, Amen is a
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