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As a child, Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani, the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts, uncles, and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely through the town's cobbled streets with packs of cousins, who quizzed her about America while she took in all teh simple joys and... read more
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“I continue to go back to Orani. My cousins and I are older, and the village too has grown up. That moment has passed—when I was a child; when Orani was shaking free of abject poverty, yet no one had too much; when new ways had not yet torn it away from what was rich in the past.”
Claire A. Nivola
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In a sea of breathtaking blue, where dolphins leaped and plunged in play, lay an island.
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Frances Foster Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-374-35657-6
Page Count: 33
Publisher: Frances Foster Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-374-35657-6
Page Count: 33
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- Dewey: 945.92
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