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Updated November 21, 2003
Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman (Young Adult)
Stones weigh you down and keep you from floating away. You trip over stones. People turn to stone. Hearts are made of stone. Stones can kill. Stones mark graves and symbolic places.
Berry Morgan’s grief over the murder of her sister is like a stone inside of her. When her father takes her with him to South Africa to present money as a memorial for her sister who died there, Berry’s grief comes very close to the surface.
Once in South Africa she is confronted by the grief and the reconciliation of millions who have lost loved ones and generations to apartheid. She sees what her sister loved in the country and the people she worked with.
This is a very compelling book about dealing with private wounds, and of a country dealing with very public ones.