Thirty Girls

Blurb

Esther Akello is one of thirty Ugandan teenage girls abducted from a Catholic boarding school by rebel bandits Held captive by the Lords Resistance Army Esther is forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities She struggles to survive to escape and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done Jane Wood is a sensual idealistic American writer who is traveling across Africa hoping to give a voice to young people like Esther and to find her own center In unflinching prose Minot interweaves the stories of these two astonishing young women who as they confront displacement and heartbreak are hurtled inexorably closer to one another With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africas horror and beauty Susan Minot gives us her most brilliant novel yet