Rebecca H. (Rebemdee) reviewed on 6/9/2006

This book is written for older children/teens, but it reads like a first class novel. It's the gripping story of a young girl, Koly, who is married to a young boy so his family can get the dowry. He quickly dies, leaving her a widow in a society that shuns widowed women and treats them like disposable outcasts. Her story is hopeful, but one can only feel sadness for the thousands of women left to live on their own, begging for food, in a society that doesn't respect them.

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