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For fans of The Tiger's Better half and All the Light WE CAN NOT See comes a robust debut novel about a girl's coming old - and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree 10-year-old, coping with her family in a tiny apartment in Croatia's capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana's idyllic child years. Lifestyle is improved by food rations and air raid drills, and sports matches are substituted by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of 1 another, and Ana's sense of safeness starts off to fray. If the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. NY, 2001. Ana is currently a college scholar in Manhattan. Though she's tried out to go on from her past, she can't get away her memory of war - secrets she retains even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana profits to Croatia after a decade away, expecting to make tranquility with the place she once called home. As she faces her spirits, she must come to conditions with her country's difficult background and the events that interrupted her child years years before. Moving back and forth through time, Female at Conflict is an honest, ample, brilliantly written book that illuminates how background shapes the average person. Sara Novic fearlessly shows the impact of war using one young female - and its own legacy on all of us. From the debut with a writer who may have stared into recent background to discover a story that is constantly on the resonate today.
