Under the Boab Tree

Boaboa - pronounced `Bow-a-Bow-a' - is the name given to a real tree-the Baobab-that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska's tenacity and courage ...