Publishers Weekly, June 29th, 1998
AFTER SPENDING Two YEARS in the Amazon as a graduate student in the early 1970s, Joan Abelove (who has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology) knew she wanted to convey her experience there in a book for children. "I can't even say why; it just felt to me very important," she says. In Go and Come Back (DK Apr.), a teenaged girl eloquently narrates the story of her blossoming friendship with two women anthropologists who come to study her Isabo village, in the Amazonian jungle of Peru.
When Abelove first arrived in the jungle, she was told to "be on the lookout for weird things, like totems. But [...
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