A mother wonders how to keep her daughter safe. A daughter wonders if, with her parents gone, safety is ever possible. Beauty and Robin - a woman and a girl - find their lives forever altered in the Soweto Uprising in 1976 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Told through their alternating perspectives, Hum if You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais is a moving and touching story that highlights the point once again that in a conflict, innocent victims exist on all sides.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/09/hum-if-you-dont-know-words.html
Reviewed for Penguin First to Read program.
Read my complete review at http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2017/09/hum-if-you-dont-know-words.html
Reviewed for Penguin First to Read program.
