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Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Viviana Mazza
3.0

A very quick read for teens to get some perspective on what someone their age might be going through in Nigeria where the Boko Haram are making young women their slaves and husbands as they murder and kill from village to village. It's a sad story, but the tone of voice it has, through the main character, is short, concise, and surface level, almost like someone in shock. Which I would be if I had to go through what she goes through. This story was created from interviews with girls and women who have been kidnapped and rescued from the Boko Haram, with short chapters, like stream of consciousness writing. It reminded me a little bit of the writing from "Land of a Thousand Goodbyes" with the young man trying to survive among the Taliban and Daesh, but this book is much better written and therefore a better way to hold a teen reader's interest as they read about the true story of the lives of their peers in Nigeria.