Rites and Symbols of Initiation.
A fifteen-year-old American girl reluctantly accompanies her family to Kenya, where she falls in love with a young Frenchman and gradually with Africa itself.
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- Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
- Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
- What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
- If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
- Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?