![]() ![]() The memoir also has a cathartic element, as Fordham seeks to understand her mother and all of her complexities. Still, though they were out of their element, they came to view Uganda as home. The family also dealt with their inability to find basic items like soap, an overabundance of finger bananas, and a frightening visit from a soldier. Scenes cover her mother’s neverending battle with tomato-stealing monkeys, the constant lookout for snakes, a viper in the laundry basket, and swarms of driver ants. With humor and candor, Fordham discusses the political situation in Uganda and the nuances of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. She writes about her mother, who she both knew and did not know about how faith was the undercurrent of her family’s life and about adapting to the unfamiliar and unforgiving environment. ![]() Her childhood was at once idyllic and fraught with danger. The second child of an American father and a Finnish mother, Fordham moved with her family to a country that was known to be dangerous, though she was too young to know that at the time. ![]() Sari Fordham grew up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church as the child of missionaries her poetic memoir Wait for God to Notice is about her childhood experiences in Uganda, during Idi Amin’s 1970s reign of terror. ![]()
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