![]() ![]() One day, however, his game is interrupted - and his childhood shattered - by soldiers who massacre everyone in the village.ĭeo and his older brother Innocent, the only ones left alive, have to set out for the freedom of South Africa. I remember thinking that this was a good way of finding out if someone was an American, because why would we know or care?)ĭeo's favorite pasttime is playing soccer with the other kids of his Zimbabwe village. (This reminds me of a conversation we had at FYA Book Club last week - don't ask how we got on the topic - about how one time my family and I were in Mexico and were driving back over the border and the INS agent didn't ask my dad for ID or anything, just who had won the US-Germany soccer game in the World Cup earlier that day. I can't be seen with this book in public! They'll try to deport me! There is also a soccer ball on the cover, and I am an American. There is symbolic barbed wire and the colors echo the feeling of the book - bright spots of color against an arid, desolate backdrop. I like this cover! Yes, it features a headless person, but the person isn't so much the focus. Relationship Status: More Than Just An Issue Friend BOOK REPORT for Now Is the Time For Running by Michael Williamsīonus Factors: Boys!, Real Ultraviolence, Immigration Issues ![]()
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