The Other Side of Truth by Naidoo Beverley (z-lib.org).epub

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GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATIONSade (short for Folasade) is a name in Yoruba, a language with a very musicalsound. Sade is pronounced something like Shad-deh, with your voice rising onthe second syllable.
CHAPTER 1LAGOS, NIGERIASURVIVORSSADE IS SLIPPING HER ENGLISH BOOK into her schoolbag when Mamascreams. Two sharp cracks splinter the air. She hears her father’s fierce cry,rising, falling.“No! No!”The revving of a car and skidding of tires smother his voice.Her bag topples from the bed, spilling books, pen and pencil onto the floor.She races to the verandah, pushing past Femi in the doorway. His body iswooden with fright.“Mama mi?” she whispers.Papa is kneeling in the driveway, Mama partly curled up against him. Onebare leg stretches out in front of her. His strong hands grip her, trying to halt thegrowing scarlet monster. But it has already spread down her bright whitenurse’s uniform. It stains the earth around them.A few seconds, that is all. Later, it will always seem much longer.A small gathering began to swell the house, tense and hushed. Sade starednumbly out of the sitting-room window to where Joseph stood nervously onguard. At each new bang, rattle or hoot, he peered anxiously through the crackbetween the metal gates. His head moved painfully forward and backward likethat of an old tortoise. His fingers floundered and fumbled each time he had towrench back the bolt. He had been a witness. One second he had been casuallypushing back one of the gates so his master could drive off to work. The nextsecond, his madame lay slumped on the ground and a white car was screechingaway through the wide avenue of palm trees.Uncle Tunde, Papa’s eldest brother, arrived with the doctor. Sade and Femihuddled close to their father as he steered the doctor to the sofa where Mamanow lay. Her face stared upward to the ceiling fan, with lips slightly parted and atiny frown, as if there were only some small disturbance in a dream. But the
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Page 12 and 13: tiny frown, as if there were only s
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Page 18 and 19: in big trouble. You heard him.”
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CHAPTER 14VOICES IN THE DARKSADE IS
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CHAPTER 15TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTHBLA
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“Good. Robert said he thought you
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to think about what Iyawo-Jenny had
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Sade was silent. They needed to spe
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“I can tell that something terrib
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of him. Mr. Nathan wrote down the c
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DEPARTMENT. A man in a yellow coat
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“This isn’t going to work unles
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CHAPTER 19WELCOMEANOTHER SHOCK AWAI
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“It’s the home of our ancestors
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CHAPTER 20SEA OF FACESTHE DEAD, FLA
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uniform list. All around her, conve
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CHAPTER 21“WHAT KIND OF NAME IS T
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felt like to hide in a homemade den
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CHAPTER 22BULLIES IN THE HEADA FRES
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Mariam and her family as well? Mama
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CHAPTER 23“MARCIA WANTS YOU!”WH
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Reluctantly she followed in the foo
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CHAPTER 24A DISTANT SILENCEFOR THE
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“We could try the International D
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Donna stepped out from behind her.
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All morning, Sade’s mind throbbed
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going up to the library.“I don’
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That evening, when Sade said she ha
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roadblocks in the day. At night the
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CHAPTER 28A GUARDIAN ANGELSADE’S
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Sade bit her thumb so hard, it pain
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CHAPTER 29TERRITORY OF THE EYESFOR
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Finally, when the man agreed to lea
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to Papa. Could they not stay here w
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sleeping?” I did try, but I just
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strict and some of the students are
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he leans forward that he is talking
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“Excuse me,” Sade’s voice fel
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seemed even more remote from the sq
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was unlikely that Mr. Seven O’Clo
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it possible to become paralyzed thr
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CHAPTER 33WAITINGTHE TAXI ENGINE CH
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The camera swung to an earnest youn
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CHAPTER 34OUT OF THE SHADOWSA SMALL
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“We couldn’t find you! Where ha
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CHAPTER 35DARE TO TELLMy dear child
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CHAPTER 36SORRYMIST WRAPPED ITSELF
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flicker of surprise as Sade followe
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CHAPTER 37BLAMEAUNT GRACIE COAXED S
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slow motion. Waiting and waiting to
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for weeks his children were lost to
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Sade waited to hear Mama Appiah’s
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Don’t worry about deciding now. 8
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Service broadcasting from London.
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hallway clock every few minutes. At
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—and all of Lagos—disappear int
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“Ah, here they are!”With a flou
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CHAPTER 42LETTER HOME24 December,Ch
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GLOSSARYagbada a robe for a man, us
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI owe thanks to many
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AWARDS FOR THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTHC
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