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Bloomsbury
July 2014
On Sale: July 8, 2014
Featuring: Vanja
240 pages
ISBN: 1620403366
EAN: 9781620403365
Kindle: B00J0VBVW6
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Young Adult | Fiction
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasnβt mine. In a city that wasnβt mine, in a country that wasnβt mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions (all very good), wasnβt mine. When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Determined to find her biological father in order to fill the void that has so suddenly appeared in her life, Vanja decides to leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla notorious for his violent past. From there she goes in search of her biological father, tracing her motherβs footsteps and gradually discovering the truth about herself. Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of familial and political history.
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