![]() Tina Athaide’s powerful novel is gripping as it explores the 1972 expulsion of 50,000 Asians from Uganda. And with only days before the deadline, Asha and Yesofu must decide if the bravest thing of all might be to let each other go. Now as neighbors leave and soldiers line the streets, the two friends find that nothing seems sure-not even their friendship. But Yesofu is torn, pulled between his friends, his family, and a promise of a better future. Tall.īut when Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see-not the shared after-school samosas or Asha cheering for Yesofu at every cricket game.ĭetermined for her life to stay the same, Asha clings to her world tighter than ever before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Themes: Friendship, Social class, Ethnic relations, East Indians, Uganda, Family life, Idi Amin, HistoryĪsha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. ![]()
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