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I was drawn into the novel during the time Valentino was about to find out if his parents were still alive. The build up towards this section felt like a movie a little on the cliche side, but still interesting . First it starts out with Valentino (called Achak in Kakuma) getting summoned to his house where he meets a woman who tells him that his parents are still alive in Marial Bai. This starts out with the whole family (or live-in family that has accepted Valentino and a few other "unaccompanied minors") eating a very rare dish that is found in Marial Bai, except Valentino does not recognize where it comes from because he hasn't had such food in years. Then the woman gets introduced as a midwife who has traveled many miles helping pregnant mothers along the way. She then says that she found another woman, a woman in a yellow dress - which in the past is always referred to Achak's mother because she always wore a "yellow dress". Then she starts to say that the woman in the dress lost a boy many years ago and then later on in the passage we find out that Achak's parents are alive and are still looking for their long lost son. Yet he does not visit them yet due to the Nairobi trip, as his family believes that he will not survive.
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