Historical novel set around ENGLAND (Birmingham)
A Girl Named Disaster
Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
Era(s): 1981
Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.
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