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As if we fit together like old shards
orphan, unfortunate, drunk, prostitute
in a neat history of broken glass

The Abbotsford Convent becomes more than the setting, the grey mince-meat walls, of this collection. It emerges as presence, intimate and familiar as well as constraining and forbidding. But it is childhood itself which becomes the subterranean geography and pulse....

Kadi's first scream went through me like a dagger. … Kadi, the cheerful four-year-old … had just discovered pain, the horror of tradition. They had circumcised her… The Day Kadi Lost Part of Her Life is the moving photostory of a four-year-old girl named Kadi who is subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in accordance with the traditions of her community. Kadi's story is typical of every...

Once there was a girl named Meena. If you looked up her name in a book, you would find that it means ‘fish’ in Sanskrit. But Meena didn’t know that because she never looked up anything anywhere. She hated to read, and she hated books. When Meena one day opens the books she is in for a great surprise. Hilariously funny, this is an appealing story about a young girl who lives in a household of...