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"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
I think I came across the french version of this idiom
Sometimes I find that I don't care about this MC, but other times I find that I do. I guess that's why I keep reading, because I want to see if at the end I will be in the caring or uncaring phase.

Why is it always my gender doing the most for the other gender, though? Eish. This child risked a lot for a principle (to avoid being like her grandfather and behaving like a child when time to do so had long passed) and she broke the law and was nearly caught to visit Maxime. It cost her a precious memento.

On Tiktok I came across a page that was posting episodes of an animation title Kirikou that I watched & enjoyed, searching for all episodes posted so I could watch the entire thing. I thought it was the work of Africans because the story is about African folktales, like the one I know about a creature that drank all the water, causing a drought. Seeing it mentioned in this book had me doing some online investigation

The diction is very simple in this book, very accessible. It is probably for a juvenile reading level but I suppose the themes are what might make it not for a young audience. Set in the last century in the beginning and crossing over to this century by chapter 3.