Eight Unforgettable Books About Missing Persons

Eight Unforgettable Books About Missing Persons

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The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice

The Literature of Children Who Raise Themselves and Demand Justice

"Children witness parental and social failure and compensate for them, survive, raise each other, raise themselves [and] try to understand..."

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