Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) dressing in drag

dressing in drag

but now we're writing a book together'

We find our hope where they found theirs

to emerging power relationships and economies

Gerard Dillon

Soumchi Booker Prize Nominee (2010) dressing in dragWhen Soumchi, an eleven year old boy growing up in British occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyedeven if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first he wants to show his new prize to his friend Aldo