Brave Music of a Distant Drum
by Manu Herbstein

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    Red Deer Press (Oct 04, 2011)
    Paperback, 181 pages
    Fiction
    Target Age Group: Young Adult

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    In Brave Music of a Distant Drum, a blind old slave woman, Ama, summons her son to come and write down her story so that her granddaughter and her granddaughter’s children can one day read it and know their history. Ama’s son, Kwame Zumbi - named Zacharias Williams by the white Christians who raised him - considers her an ugly old pagan and has little interest in doing more than is necessary to fulfill his obligation to her. How he is changed by the acts of hearing and writing down the details of his mother’s story is as powerful and important a story as Ama’s. The story of an African enslaved in Brazil, Ama’s story is violent - it includes murder, rape, and betrayal - and yet it is also a story of courage, hope, determination, and love.


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