Call number
BIO MOO
Collection
Publication
Graywolf Press (2021), 272 pages
Description
"When WayƩtu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States"--Publisher's description.
User reviews
LibraryThing member eas7788
I wasn't sure how she would make the parts fit together, and then I got to the last section and it all worked, especially the last paragraphs. It was so suspenseful and tense at times. I loved her use of the child's perspective -- so strong in images. It was agonizing to read in many ways. And yet
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so joyful. I want to re-read. Show Less
LibraryThing member kakadoo202
Really wanted to like it but cannot get into the writing style
LibraryThing member reader1009
nonfiction, autobiographical (author retraces her family's traumatic escape from war-torn Liberia when she was 5 y.o.)
It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but I enjoyed the author's journey in piecing together the fractured memories. If you have the patience to stick with it, it's
It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but I enjoyed the author's journey in piecing together the fractured memories. If you have the patience to stick with it, it's
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Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Autobiography — 2020)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2021)
Reading Women Award (Shortlist — Nonfiction — 2020)
BookTube Prize (Octofinalist — Nonfiction — 2021)
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Nonfiction — 2022)
ISBN
1644450569 / 9781644450567