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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by Helene Cooper
Around the World Reading Challenge: LIBERIA
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A friend recommended this one to me to read for Liberia and I found it a really fascinating read. I was vaguely familiar with Liberia prior to this read but I really appreciated that, while this is certainly a personal memoir, the author provides a lot of context around the situation in Liberia, going into some of the history and external forces that led to the start of the civil wars that drove her family to flee. I really enjoyed the narrative style here, but, though I understand there are limitations when working within a memoir format, I did want a bit more depth, particularly retrospectively when it would have made the most sense, in regards to the massive class disparity between her and most of the rest of Liberia. Though this is primarily a memoir, I did feel myself wanting just a bit more, though overall I very much enjoyed!
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A friend recommended this one to me to read for Liberia and I found it a really fascinating read. I was vaguely familiar with Liberia prior to this read but I really appreciated that, while this is certainly a personal memoir, the author provides a lot of context around the situation in Liberia, going into some of the history and external forces that led to the start of the civil wars that drove her family to flee. I really enjoyed the narrative style here, but, though I understand there are limitations when working within a memoir format, I did want a bit more depth, particularly retrospectively when it would have made the most sense, in regards to the massive class disparity between her and most of the rest of Liberia. Though this is primarily a memoir, I did feel myself wanting just a bit more, though overall I very much enjoyed!