Title: Slow-moving
Product review: A girl's book -- boys likely would not relate to the very female nature of this book. Nhamo (whose name means Disaster) lives in the African country of Mozambique in the early 1980s. The native religion and customs of the time will be strange to a youth reader today. Because the spirits tell her family that she is the cause of a cholera epidemic, they send her to be the fourth wife of a cruel man in another town. She runs away, and much of the book consists of her adventures on a boat and on islands in Lake Cabora Bassa.Some of the adventures were a girl-in-jungle version of My Side of the Mountain, but Nhamo's constant communication with various spirits of her religion make the adventure a bit peculiar much of the time. Nhamo also becomes a woman during this voyage, which could make male readers uncomfortable.
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