The author of The Hired Man, Aminanna Forma, is from Scotland and Sierra Leone. The story is set in Croatia. An English woman comes to a small town. She bought a house and is going to renovate it. She hires a neighbor man named Duro. As Duro repairs the roof and replaces some walls and windows, he gets to know the woman and her two children. Grace is 12 and very observant. Her brother is 17 who sleeps a lot because he misses the internet. With the woman's interactions with the people in the town, she learns about local history including the Yugoslav Wars. I enjoyed the descriptions of the forests around town and the wild animals that lived there.
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