![]() ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.I thought I would not like it based on the premise of the story and the cover and I was more than pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it." Interesting writing style no quotation marks in the conversations in the book. Also is touching because of his feelings toward the excess in America compared to his home country of Somalia. ![]() He is a refugee from Africa who because of a language barrier manages to get into a lot of funny scrapes. "I loved that the book was written in a poetry style in the voice of the main character Kek. As Kek awaits word of his mother’s fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care, an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means “family” in his native language. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she’s missing. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. ![]() He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter–cold and unkind. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. ![]()
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