Title: The good braider
Description: Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a timeline of Sudan.
Subjects: Immigrants, Fiction, Sudanese Americans, Mothers and daughters, Refugees, History, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Refugees, fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, African americans, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Africa, fiction, Maine, fiction
Places: Sudan, Portland (Me.)
Time periods: Civil War, 1983-2005