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Published
Feb 6, 2024
Publisher
Make Me a World
Subgenre
Contemporary
Section
Young Adult

Bright Red Fruit

Sixteen-year-old Samira, branded a 'bad girl' by rumors in her close-knit Sudanese American community and kept home by her strict mother, finds an outlet in an online poetry board, where an older poet's attention draws her into dangerous secrets.

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