The Trouble with Belonging

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Pub Date 18 Nov 2021 | Archive Date 9 Dec 2021

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A lonely boy adrift in a foreign world finds his anchor in a girl he saved from the streets.

Chen Kehuan has no mother, no friends, no social skills, and no sense of belonging.  When he lands among other third culture kids in yet another foreign city, nobody really matters to him until he meets a mysterious street child called Niki. As he starts looking after her, his life gradually changes.

Little Niki roams the streets of Warsaw, talking to strangers on a whim and making things out of nothing, and since she has no choice, she takes care of herself well enough. But then she meets Kehuan, and her whole life changes as well.

In her adolescent years, Niki still struggles with the fallout of her turbulent childhood. But family crisis or peer trouble, school difficulties or health issues, Kehuan helps solve each and every of her problems. Until everything changes again, and he becomes the problem. Now what?

A lonely boy adrift in a foreign world finds his anchor in a girl he saved from the streets.

Chen Kehuan has no mother, no friends, no social skills, and no sense of belonging. When he lands among...


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Two gifted children from two different worlds and backgrounds find together in a friendship that is stronger than any (non-existent) family ties despite the age gap and cultural differences.
Slowly friendship becomes love but the transition isn't smooth. Sometimes you need to state the obvious.Two gifted children from two different worlds and backgrounds find together in a friendship that is stronger than any (non-existent) family ties despite the age gap and cultural differences.
Slowly friendship becomes love but the transition isn't smooth. Sometimes you need to state the obvious.

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great insight into the challenges of becoming your own person, figuring life out and accepting that you are human like the next person but trying to decode all the reasons and ways in which your human experience differs from theirs

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