![]() ![]() Nisha can’t understand why the people she has always known are now labeled by their religion and are suddenly people she shouldn’t like. ![]() They make it very clear how children suffer from societal conflict and violence. Nisha’ s diary entries to her mother are beautiful and filled with pain. The family, including their elderly grandmother, make a treacherous journey on foot to the border, nearly dying of thirst along the way. ![]() The children are half Hindu and half Muslim, and when the violent events around Partition occurred, their father decides it’s too dangerous for them to remain in Pakistan. The setting is India, recently divided into India and Pakistan in 1947. It’s written as a series of diary entries/ letters from 12 year old Nisha to her mother, who died when Nisha and her twin brother Amil were born. This book was recommended to me by a patron, and I loved it. ![]()
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