The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood | 
#12BooksOf2022
My May favorite was my favorite #ReadingAfrica2022 read as well. I loved that challenge and highly recommend the book!
pickThis was an excellent book about growing up in Liberia, and later leaving as a refugee in the 1980‘s. I highly recommend the audiobook read by the author. #ReadingAfrica2022
pickAn autobiography of an award winning journalist‘s coming of age in Liberia before the country descended into the chaos of civil war. In mere months, a country with solid infrastructure and tax base but with historically approved class and racial distinctions between the haves and have nots, lost all stability. The author‘s family flees to the US where they are mere faceless refugees without funds. Very well written and fascinating history lesson
Eek. #ReadAroundTheWorld is not going well this year @BookwormM ! I‘m still in the middle the last two months‘ books for the Solomon Islands and The Czech Republic. Which is particularly annoying as I was really enjoying both of them.
Have just reserved the tagged to ignore for 3 months for June‘s Liberia read 😬. Apparently I stacked this 5 years ago!
pickOne of my African favourites so far for. These are the memoirs of NYT journalist Helene Cooper, who grows up in #Liberia. When the country falls apart after the coup of 1980, she and her family flee to the US. Her less privileged half sister Eunice stays in a country that for years suffers under crazy dictators who recruit child soldiers and drug them to fight for.. well, for whatever. ⬇️⬇️
#ReadingAfrica2022 ??
Picture, caption, quote: all about this page is heartbreaking ❤️🩹
However, this book about a childhood in #Liberia is much more than that. #ReadingAfrica2022
My first thought for the #sugar prompt is this memoir from journalist Helene Cooper of growing up in Liberia and surviving the 1980 coup. A horrific story told beautifully. #lyricalapril @Cinfhen
