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We kiss them with rain /

Life wasn't always hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo. There were good times when they lived with her mother's boyfriend. Now her mother is dying of AIDS and the terrible thing that happened to Mvelo in the revival tent remains unspoken. But a series of choices, chance meetings, and comedy-s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ntshingila, Futhi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Livermore, California : Catalyst Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Teenagers > South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
Squatter settlements > South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
Grants-in-aid > South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
Single mothers > Juvenile fiction.
South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Teenagers > Fiction.
South Africa > Fiction.
FICTION > General.
Grants-in-aid.
Single mothers.
Squatter settlements.
Teenagers.
South Africa.
Single mothers > Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Young adult works.
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Summary:Life wasn't always hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo. There were good times when they lived with her mother's boyfriend. Now her mother is dying of AIDS and the terrible thing that happened to Mvelo in the revival tent remains unspoken. But a series of choices, chance meetings, and comedy-style exposures of hidden identities hands Mvelo a golden opportunity to overcome hardship.
Item Description:"Originally published as Do not go gentle, by Modjadji Books (South Africa)."
Includes a Q & A with the author and discussion questions.
Physical Description:148 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781946395047
1946395048