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Good book for missionary kid teens
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Picked up a book recently because it looked like it had a TCK theme. It’s a young adult novel called Fool’s Gold, By Melody Carlson, about a missionary’s daughter from Papua New Guinea who comes back to the United States. The book starts out with her cultural out-of-placeness, and moves on to her beginning to drown in America’s materialistic superficial money-focused fashion-conscious culture.
TCKs will identify with the culture clash and many will identify with the bewilderment and America’s obsessive materialism, but I think the ones who will identify most are missionary kids as it examines the character’s questions about God, her missionary lifestyle, and her struggle with the world of materialism, booze, and sex. It’s written by a Christian author so there’s non of the anti-missionary slant that’s present in a lot of secular books and movies (such as The Mosquito Coast). Also, anyone who has a shopping addiction might find this book quite helpful as it’s the first one I’ve seen which examines how and why people get addicted to shopping, and the euphoria, psycholigical highs, and then come-downs that go with it.
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