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Casting With A Fragile Thread.


Casting With A Fragile Thread

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Casting With A Fragile Thread: A Story Of Sisters And Africa tells of the mother of three children who left her Rhodesia childhood behind fifteen years earlier to settle into a new life in America and escape her country's upheaval. When she receives a call that her youngest sister has been killed in Zambia, she returns to her native Africa to find a new sense of purpose. A vivid story of death, rebirth re·birth  
n.
1. A second or new birth; reincarnation.

2. A renaissance; a revival: a rebirth of classicism in architecture.
, and cultural discovery evolves.
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Title Annotation:Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa
Publication:The Bookwatch
Article Type:Book review
Date:Sep 1, 2006
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