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Life can change without warning. That's one of the recurring notes sounded by Matilda Laimo, the likeable, self-effacing narrator of MISTER PIP, as she looks back on her early adolescence on a small island village in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea in the early 90s. It's a note of both warning and hope, for she was trapped on the island at the worst of times--during a ruthless, atrocity-ridden civil war--yet somehow managed to survive it. That's the one lifeline (the Mr. Jaggers--you'll learn what this means) that Lloyd throws his readers from the outset: Matilda has lived to tell her tale, we just don't know how or at what cost.
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