In the form of letters from a mother in Zimbabwe to her daughter who is a student at Harvard. Picked this up because I needed to read books set in Africa for the 6 books, 6 countries, 6 continents reading challenge, and I'm glad I did. I've never been to Africa, so I haven't visited Zimbabwe, but who knows? Maybe someday...

I love this bit:

One cannot take racism personally. If you begin to doubt yourself, then the battle is lost. It has nothing to do with your voice, your looks, your charm, your intelligence, your attitude, and certainly not your acheivements. It focuses on one thing, one variable only, to the exclusion of all others--your color. To question yourself because someone treated you like a second-class citizen is like judging your self-image by the reflection you see in those circus mirrors that stretch your face out wide and pull your torso to your toes. They have such a distorted image of who you are and what you are. The true reflection of you lies within. The internal mirror will never lie."


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WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Ground Level, Makai side (near See's, Sam Goody, Hilo Hattie, etc.)

Released for the August 2009 One Word Release Challenge.

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