{"product_id":"the-means-that-make-us-strangers-paperback","title":"The Means That Make Us Strangers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristine Kindberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful\" -\u003ci\u003eBookLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Entertaining and engaging\" -\u003ci\u003eReviews from the Stacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extraordinary and original\" -\u003ci\u003eChildren's Bookwatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Christy Award for Young Adult\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHome is where your people are. But who are your people? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdelaide vows to find her way back to Ethiopia, marry Maicaah, and become part of the village for real. But until she turns eighteen, Adelaide must adjust to this strange, white place that everyone tells her is home. Then Adelaide becomes friends with the five African-American students who sued for admission into the white high school. Even as she navigates her family's expectations and her mother's depression, Adelaide starts to enjoy her new friendships, the chance to learn new things, and the time she spends with a blond football player. Life in Greenville becomes interesting, and \u003ci\u003ehome\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a much more complex equation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdelaide must finally choose where she belongs: the Ethiopian village where she grew up, to which she promised to return? Or this place where she's become part of something bigger than herself? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Teen readers interested in the civil rights era will be enthralled by this nuanced story of race relations in the 1960s American South, seen through the eyes of a white girl raised in Ethiopia.\"-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookLife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Christine Kindberg's fiction explores the complexity of identity, love, and faith with extraordinary intimacy and skill. Her bracing prose draws you into the lives of characters who live and breathe upon the page.\" -\u003cb\u003eNaeem Murr\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Man\u003c\/i\u003e (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Means That Make Us Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully written coming-of-age story that will satisfy experienced readers as well as younger ones. Christine Kindberg treats all of these characters graciously and with deep generosity. The result is a gorgeous meditation on growing up, experiencing love, and finding home.\" -\u003cb\u003ePinckney Benedict\u003c\/b\u003e, three-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, author of \u003ci\u003eDogs of God\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMiracle Boy and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom CHAPTER 1: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tangle of arms reaching toward the fig tree. Among the thicket of deep-black arms stretching toward the fruit, two arms stood out, pale as a full moon.\u003cbr\u003eI remember thinking how different those arms looked, while waiting for fruit to drop as Maicaah shook the branch. A fig hit the white hands and fell to the ground, and it was with shock that I felt the pain in my hands.\u003cbr\u003eThe others scrambled to get the figs that had landed in the grass. I stayed standing, turning my hands over and over in the sunlight that filtered through the leaves.\u003cbr\u003eWhen Kinci stood up, I pulled her wrist until her arm was elbow-to-elbow with mine. Our arms were the same length, and we both had beaded cuffs of yellow, purple, green, and red beads in the same zig-zag pattern. Underneath and around her bracelet, the skin of her arm was as dark as a burnt clay pot, with pink scar spots where she'd scratched at bug bites. My arm was the color of dried grass, even paler in the crease of my elbow, against the contrast of the dirt that gathered there.\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm white,\" I said.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742044622911,"sku":"9781797761350","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/29e3cf2c7958de75b7622e7872d464c9.webp?v=1765162551","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-means-that-make-us-strangers-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}