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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Khosi Zulu is fourteen, living in a township in South Africa. Every day, it seems, another of her neighbors dies of "the disease of these days," AIDS. When a witch curses Khosi and a shiftless man begins stalking her, Khosi feels torn between her mother's scientific rationalism and her grandmother's belief in the power of the ancestors to protect her. Then Khosi's mother comes down with a wasting disease. Is it AIDS? Tuberculosis? The witch's curse? Khosi feels that only a san...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
