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Signed, Hopelessly in Love was written by Lauri Kubuitsile, an award-winning author who’s written 14 published works of fiction, primarily for children. This was the first one I’d read. I liked it for several different reasons.Kubuitsile lives in Botswana and the book is set there. I know little about Botswana and loved getting to read about the people there, as well as the setting. Life there is different from here – and yet, not so different. Parents love their children there as much as they d...
Signed, Hopelessly in Love by Lauri Kubuitsile is a little book that gets around. It was short listed for the Sanlam Youth Prize in 2009 and was recently short listed for the M.E.R Prize for youth fiction.The story follows fifteen year old Amo Sethunya, or just Amo for short, who lives with her grandmother in Botswana.Amo writes hard hitting stories for the school newspaper, The Voice of the People. Her investigative journalism has earned her a no-nonsense reputation at school and she aspires to...
If the names were Americanized and some of the African words taken out, I'd never know it wasn't a story of typical teen problems set in the U.S. But the story takes place in Botswana, told in the first person by Amogelang, whose age I couldn't really determine, not being familiar with what age a person would be in a "junior secondary school" there. Amo, as her friends call her, wants to be a journalist, and is writing for the school newspaper. When her editor asks her to take charge of an "agon...
