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The unbroken cl clark summary7/8/2023 ![]() Heilig uses small details to great effect, drawing a rich, full picture. ![]() The setting of this story is the camel train from Xi’an to Persia, with all the sweat, muck, camel dung, pomegranates, and continual search for water that you’d expect. All she has to protect her against illness are the amulets given to her by family, friends, the man she would have married, and at times it feels like they are more a burden than a help. ![]() It’s all Lihua’s fault: If she hadn’t received her diagnosis, if she hadn’t gotten sick, they could have remained in Xi’an. Lihua and her parents have left behind everything they have ever known, heading west in hopes of finding the Place of No Return - and then going even further. Review of Heidi Heilig, “The Long Road”, in Marieke Nijkamp, ed., Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018): 3-17 - Purchase here. ![]()
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