{"product_id":"sahwira-an-african-friendship-0763635758","title":"Sahwira: An African Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0763635758\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Marsden, Carolyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the volatile Rhodesia of the 1960s, this dramatic story, narrated from alternating viewpoints, tells of an interracial friendship tested.Like his best friend, Blessing - a Shona boy whose father is his churchs pastor - twelve-year-old Evan, a white American, lives on a Methodist mission in what is now Zimbabwe. Blessing attends the mission school for black Africans, while Evan goes to a whites-only boys school in town. As Martin Luther King Jr. marches a world away, local headlines announce the murder of a white farmer by African independence fighters. Evans school friends immediately side with the whites, the headmaster turns them into cadets in training, and soon incendiary handbills are circulating. As tensions mount both on and off the mission, Evan is forced to choose. But how can he know how farreaching his choice will be?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51959703732512,"sku":"NEW0763635758","price":15.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/sahwira-an-african-friendship-0763635758","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}