When her baby sister dies, Chanda begins to fear that her parents' illness may be something more than they are willing to say, in a novel about a young girl struggling with the AIDs epidemic in her native African homeland, the shame of molestation, and the pain of living in poverty. Simultaneous.
Allan Stratton recently returned from Africa where he met the people who inspired this book. He is past Head of Drama at an arts school in Toronto and a former member of New York's The Actors' Studio. His earlier young adult novel,Leslie's Journal, earned numerous accolades, including a place on the American Library Association'sBest Books for Young Adults list.