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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: history of a difficult child
  name:
    name part: Sibhat, Mihret
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 390 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Wisecracking, inquisitive, and bombastic, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large, boisterous family. Even before she is born, she has a wry, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her small town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes, once an enterprising, land-owning family, are ostracized under the new regime. In the small town where they live, nosy women convene around coffee ceremonies multiple times a day, the gossip spreading like wildfire. As Selam's mother, the powerful and relentlessly dignified Degitu, grows ill, she embraces a persecuted, Pentecostal God and insists her family convert alongside her. The Asmelashes stand solidly in opposition to the times, and Selam grows up seeking revenge on despotic comrades, neighborhood bullies and a ruthless God. Wise beyond her years yet thoroughly naive, she contends with an inner fury, a profound sadness, and a throbbing, unstoppable pursuit of education, freedom and love. Told through the perspective of its charming and irresistible narrator, The History of a Difficult Child is about what happens when mother, God and country are at odds and how one difficult child finds her voice.
  note: Mihret Sibhat.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-et---
  subject:
    topic: Revolutions
    geographic: Ethiopia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Families
    geographic: Ethiopia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Ethiopia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Girls
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Bullies
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Dictatorship
    geographic: Ethiopia
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979-
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3619.I236 H57 2024
  classification: 813.6
  identifier: 0593298632
  identifier: 9780593298633
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240419
    record change date: 20250307194604.9
    record identifier: in00005611617