Thirty Girls

"The Lord's Resistance Army, led by warlord Joseph Kony, has terrorised the people of northern Uganda for years, mutilating and murdering people as they raid villages, kidnapping and raping children to expand Kony's 'family'. This is the fate in store for Esther, one of the 139 students abducted from St Mary's School. Eventually she will have to learn to live with all she has seen and done to survive. Jane is an American writer, observing the glamour of Kenyan ex-pat life while she waits for transport to the border. She has come to forget her past, to lose herself in writing about what's happening to Uganda's children. But her fragile emotional state will be sorely tried by her experiences. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us vivid portraits of two women battling to wrest meaning from events that overtake them both."--Jacket.