Cristina Kessler Books
One Night: a story from the desert
When one of his goats gives birth, Muhamad spends the night alone in the desert and thus becomes a man in the eyes of his family.
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No condition is permanent
When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural divide that cannot be crossed.
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Our secret, Siri Aang
Namelok, a Masai girl, tries to persuade her traditionalist father to delay her initiation and marriage because they will restrict her freedom and keep her from the black rhino mother and baby she...
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My Great Grandmother's Gourd
Residents of a Sudanese village rejoice when a traditional water storage method is replaced by modern technology, but Fatima's grandmother knows there is no substitute for the reliability of the ba...
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