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Gr 8-Up Anna Bracke's world has almost begun to right itself. Her childhood in Croatia is a distant memory. High school in Belgium is ending. Her father has moved out, but they are communicating. Her mother's grief over the loss of her sons, Jason in 1994, and Michael in 1996, seems to be settling and they have found ways to avoid talking about the past. Then a letter arrives from Rovinj, in what once was Yugoslavia, from her brothers' friend Hugo, two years after Michael's disappearance in Bosnia. It reopens old wounds and send...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Anna can't possibly know that the portents and coincidences that befall her one June day are, in fact, the makings of a message from her brother Jonas, dead five years of AIDS but still very much interested in what his younger sister will make of her life. There is another older brother, Michael, who has been missing for two years in the former Yugoslavia, the country Anna and her family fled for Belgium some time ago. But now people and messages from Anna's past, from a childhood she's tri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More