The Good Braider

Name: The Good Braider
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Terry Farish
ISBN: 9781470383237

Author: Terry Farish

Narrator: Cherise Boothe

Unabridged: 4 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/06/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction, Regional Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

The Good Braider was selected as the 2013 Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year and a book of Outstanding Merit. In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola's strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family's journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the local Southern Sudanese Community, she dreams of South Sudan while she tries to navigate the strange world of America - a world where a girl can wear a short skirt, get a tattoo or even date a boy; a world that puts her into sharp conflict with her traditional mother who, like Viola, is struggling to braid together the strands of a displaced life. Terry Farish's haunting novel is not only a riveting story of escape and survival, but the universal tale of a young immigrant's struggle to build a life on the cusp of two cultures.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne on May 01, 2013

Viola’s story is one that will resonate with immigrants, their children, and people who care about others struggling under oppressive regimes and in war-ravaged lands. Those from South Sudan must become Muslim, or the soldiers from the North can kill, conscript, or rape them. This last is what happe......more

Goodreads review by Brigid on July 11, 2018

3.5 stars. Don’t get me wrong: The Good Braider was a good book and I am very glad I read it. I came very close to giving it four stars. It taught me a lot about Sudanese refugees and the struggles they faced escaping their war-torn country and eventually learning to integrate in American life, whil......more

Goodreads review by Isatta on May 01, 2017

The Good Braider is a book written in free-verse about a girl named Viola. The book chronicles Viola's journey from war torn South Sudan to America. I love love love this book! I am not always a fan of books written in free-verse because I like books to stay within one...box. However, I completely un......more