Title: Lunch with Lenin and Other StoriesPublication Date: October 2008
ISBN 13: 978-1554551057
From the beauty pageant queen who finally feels some compassion for her drug addicted sister, to the Pakistani farmers growing opium in order to buy food to eat, the tweens in this book have all been affected by drugs in one form or another. Imagine surviving an orphanage only to lose your only friend to heroin, or having to buy marijuana because it's the only thing that can alleviate your elderly grandmother's pain. In this collection of short stories, we see the full extent of the influences of drugs. Without casting blame or exaggerating the picture, Ellis' work is bittersweet: morose in tone, and hopeful in lesson.
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