Reading progress update: I've read 60 out of 249 pages.
Already, this book captures my attention so much more than the last two books I read about ballerinas. In the first two books, both ballerinas acted like they were special snowflakes, one because she battled an eating disorder, and the other because she thought that she was unfairly treated because of her skin color.
Compared to Mabinty Bangura, I have to laugh at how they described their troubles. While the worst thing that happened to Misty Copeland was that she was raised into poverty - while rich benefactors gifted her everything she needed to become a ballerina - Mabinty has so far survived the murder of her father, the death of her mother, being dropped off at an orphanage by an uncaring uncle, saw her teacher murdered in front of her - with the teacher's unborn baby cut out of the still living woman - and now she has to try to escape from a war-torn land.
And she's four years old.
If this book continues the way it is, it should be both an enthralling story and an example of courage.
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