A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it … - Elizabeth McCracken

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I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

Elizabeth McCracken

A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

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