Child of the River BISAC-GAR019040 and Isabel MacLeod

and Isabel MacLeod

Author: Deborah Keys

in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change

ISBN10: 1594736367

Since its debut in 1990

Child of the River BISAC-GAR019040 and Isabel MacLeodA timeless coming of age tale of heartbreak and triumph set in South Africa at the dawn of apartheid. Persomi is young, white, and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm in the South African Bushveld. Persomi's world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her, escaping the brutality and squalor of her family