Tree GirlHarper Collins, 13 Απρ 2004 - 225 σελίδες They call Gabriela Tree Girl. Laj Ali Re Jayub in her native language of Quiché. Gabi climbs trees to be within reach of the eagles and watch the sun rise into an empty sky. She is at home among the outstretched branches of the Guatemalan forests. Then one day from the safety of a tree, Gabi witnesses the sights and sounds of an unspeakable massacre. She sees rape and murder -- the ravages of guerrilla warfare. She vows to be Tree Girl no more. Earthbound, she joins the hordes of refugees struggling to reach the Mexican border. She has lost her whole family; her entire village has been wiped out. Yet she clings to the hope that she will be reunited with her youngest sister, Alicia. Over dangerous miles and months of hunger, thirst, and the threat of more violence from soldiers, Gabriela’s search for Alicia and for a safe haven becomes a search for self. Having turned her back on her own identity, can she hope to claim a new life? This novel is based on a true story told to the author one night by the real Tree Girl in a secure safe house in Guatemala. |
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... boys dared, I closed my eyes and reached one hand over my head. If I held my breath and spread my fingers wide apart, I could feel the clouds. The canton where I lived was nothing more than a simple cluster of wood-planked huts that ...
... boys who had called me Goat Face because I was not very beautiful, even they began calling me Tree Girl. It began innocently enough. I was sitting beneath a small twisted cedar tree, weaving a special huipil, the blouse that I planned ...
... boys joked and teased me, their stares making me uncomfortable. I felt the way any girl would, alone with boys who can't be trusted, and I was ready when they began touching me and pulling at my huipil and my corte, the wrap-around ...
... boys. Why would they want to kiss someone the other boys called Goat Face? 1 shook my head and kept weaving, but the boys were drunk. "Come with us," one insisted. "You're so beauti- ful. We'll treat you like a princess." The boys were ...
... boys swore loudly as they scrambled after me. "We didn't hurt you," one shouted. "You bit me, you ugly toad!" the other growled. I kept climbing. The boys kept shouting angry threats as they climbed farther up into the tree after me ...
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