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Exploring Kenya with Lynne Barasch

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“I love the freedom of writing fiction. Still, to be believable, fiction has to be grounded in some reality.”

Head over to the main site for a brand-new interview with author/illustrator Lynne Barasch. Her newest book, First Come the Zebra, is a fictional story based on tribal disputes in Kenya. In the interview, Barasch discusses her trip to Kenya and the other research she did to write First Come the Zebra.

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