![]() ![]() He unintentionally makes a joke when he has fries and ketchup for the first time in his life, making his classmates, including his new friend, Hannah, laugh. He smiles from ear to ear when he realises that he has his own desk and chair at school for which he does not need to pay in cattle. He announces to his grade five teacher that he is ready to begin his learning. He playfully struts around in his new outfit of jeans and a t-shirt. ![]() He jumps and falls, jumps and falls, on the bouncy “blanket cloud” that is his bed. His cousin, who lost an arm in the war in Sudan, is sullen and withdrawn, nursing bleak views of their life in America.īut Kek’s naturally joyful spirit is irrepressible. His aunt works shifts at a nursing home and is tired all the time. Minnesota is a bewildering place, with trees that “die” in the winter, electric lights that come alive at the push of a switch, a “magic water pot” which fills with hot water in the special bathing room in his aunt’s house, and cold, wet snow. After losing most of his family in the war, Kek is reunited with his maternal aunt and her son, Ganwar, in America. He adores their nomadic way of life, moving with the seasons to where their precious cows can find food and water. Kek and his family belong to a tribe of cattle herders. ![]() Burdened by his losses, Kek learns to keep his hope alive as he adjusts to life in America. A bewildering stint at a refugee camp is followed by an even more unsettling relocation by “flying boat” to America. He witnesses the murder of his father and brother. Kek is a Sudanese boy adrift in the world.
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