{"product_id":"powder-necklace-9781439126103","title":"Powder Necklace","description":"To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of London, her mother sent her to school in rural Ghana. The move was for the girl's own good, in her mother's mind, but for the daughter, the reality of being the new girl, the foreigner-among-your-own-people, was even worse than the idea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring her time at school, she would learn that Ghana was much more complicated than her fellow ex-pats had ever told her, including how much a London-raised child takes something like water for granted. In Ghana, water \"became a symbol of who had and who didn't, who believed in God and who didn't. If you didn't have water to bathe, you were poor because no one had sent you some.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter six years in Ghana, her mother summons her home to London to meet the new man in her mother's life--and his daughter. The reunion is bittersweet and short-lived as her parents decide it's time that she get to know her father. So once again, she's sent off, this time to live with her father, his new wife, and their young children in New York--but not before a family trip to Disney World.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.58w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439126103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2010 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2010 pg. 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrew-Hammond, Nana Ekua:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond has written for AOL, Parenting Magazine, the Village Voice, Metro and Trace Magazine. Her short story \"Bush Girl\" was published in the May 2008 issues of African Writing and her poem, \"The Whinings of a Seven Sister Cum Laude Graduate Working Board as an Assistant,\" was published in 2006's Growing up Girl Anthology. A cum laude graduate of Vassar College, she attended secondary school in Ghana . \u003ci\u003ePowder Necklace\u003c\/i\u003e is loosely based on the experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44707438624883,"sku":"9781439126103","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_7ceaea04-eb42-46aa-a13c-0723084c0ee0.jpg?v=1775840025","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/powder-necklace-9781439126103","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}