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==**The Bite of the Mango //by Susan McClelland BookSummary//**==


 * Description:** A courageous biography by a woman from Sierra Leone who at 12 was tortured and lost her hands to child soldiers, her subsequent life in refugee camps, begging in Freetown and her eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull her life back together.

=Bite of the Mango Q and A= //1//. **Q:** Why are the women of the village on the way to Port Loko wary of helping Mariatu at first? //2.// **Q:** What omen heralds violence in the coming day, according to Mariatu's grandmother? //3.// **Q:** What group of non-family members really helps Mariatu heal emotionally after Abdul's death? //4.// **Q:** What gives Mariatu the idea to write a memoir?
 * A:** They have heard that rebels send girls into a village to ask for help and act as a decoy, so that the soldiers can attack when the village is distracted.
 * A:** a dream of palm oil
 * A:** the Aberdeen theater troupe
 * A:** Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier who wrote about his experiences, mentions a need for the story of a girl who lived through the civil war in Sierra Leone.