Kati's Bookaholic Rambling Reviews: Spotlight: The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg

Hello, my friends today I am doing a spotlight on The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg

Title: The Means That Make Us Strangers

By Christine Kindberg

Genre: Young adult / Historical fiction

Publication Date: July 20th, 2019 by Bellflower Press

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Home is where your people are. But who are your people? Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. Adelaide vows to find her way back to Ethiopia, marry Maicaah, and become part of the village for real. But until she turns eighteen, Adelaide must adjust to this strange, white place that everyone tells her is home. Then Adelaide becomes friends with Wendy and the four other African-American students who sued for admission into the white high school. Even as she navigates her family's expectations and her mother's depression, Adelaide starts to enjoy her new friendships, the chance to learn new things, and the time she spends with a blond football player. Life in Greenville becomes interesting, and home becomes a much more complex equation. Adelaide must finally choose where she belongs: the Ethiopian village where she grew up, to which she promised to return? Or this place where she's become part of something bigger than herself?

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Author Christine Kindberg

Christine grew up in Peru, Chile, Panama, Kentucky, and North Carolina. She studied English at Wheaton College and has an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Now she lives in the Chicago area, where she works as a Spanish-language editor at Tyndale House Publishers.