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Reviewed on August 1, 1999
Intended as the first two books in the author's "Blood in the Sun" trilogy--the third being Secrets (LJ 5/1/98)--these novels are a moving study of life in Somalia before the civil war. Maps is the story of Askar, found as a newborn beside his mother's dead body and raised by Misra, an outcast in the village because of her Ethiopian heritage. Years later, during the war with Ethiopia, Askar must choose between h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
