Far from Home (Street Child): The sisters of Street Child

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There is a standoff—the cop looks at me, with an unspoken Get your friend under control—before he walks away again. Katie and Tariro are worlds apart but their lives are linked by a terrible secret, gradually revealed in this compelling and dramatic story of two girls grappling with the complexities of adolescence, family and a painful colonial legacy. I have received thousands of letters from children – mostly in class bundles from schools, who, by lucky chance, are studying the Victorians. Makes it easier to shape-shift into something else; to blend in at corporate functions or black-tie charity events. Tariro is also in love with a much-talked about boy Nhamo but she is torn from him when Nhamo is beaten and blinded for defending Tariro from a white man's physical abuse.

After a brief discussion, my friend is allowed to leave, right before I am handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a cruiser.The author bravely attempts to present two sides of a story that she cannot really feel in her heart. Highly recommend to adults and pre-teens if you want to gain some perspective on colonization through the eyes of relatable characters and a story that comes full circle. Yet, she is indebted to them when her father turns drunk and her mother leaves the family after they're removed from their farm and move without much money to London.

In her older age, Tariro, her half-white daughter born of rape, and her husband Nhamo (yes the same one she was barred from marrying she ended up marrying because of the power of love! Until disaster strikes, and the family are forced to leave everything and escape to cold, rainy London.

I am overwhelmed by the urge to tell everyone what happened, to share the gory details of a life they can’t imagine.