Orani: My Father's Village

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One of School Library Journals Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 One of Horn Books Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 As a child Claire Nivola loved summers in Orani the village where her father grew up and where her many aunts uncles and 50 cousins still lived. She ran freely through the towns cobbled streets with packs of cousins who quizzed her about America while she took in all teh simple joys and pleasures of daily life in a village where surprises met them at every turn. In this sensuous homage of prose and pictures Nivola invites readers to share in her experience of Orani a village where surprises met them at every turn and luxuries were unheard of but life was rich lived close to the earth.