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No condition is permanent /

When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural divide that cannot be crossed.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kessler, Cristina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Philomel Books, 2000.
Subjects:	Sierra Leone > Fiction. Female circumcision > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction.

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