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

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

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