The tiger makes Hamra a deal: If she will help him regain his human form, he will forgive her crime and heal her grandmother. Her mother, a nurse, is staying at a hospital far away, treating COVID-19 patients her father is busy delivering supplies to those in need all over the island and her beloved grandmother is increasingly unrecognizable as dementia steals her memories.įeeling frustrated and forgotten, Hamra consciously breaks the rules by taking a magical jambu fruit from the jungle, earning the ire of the powerful weretiger to whom it belongs. But the morning of Hamra’s 13th birthday finds her disinclined to heed adults and their inexplicable rules. Hamra knows the rules about the Langkawi jungle behind her island home in Malaysia: Never enter without asking the jungle’s permission, never use her real name and never take anything that isn’t hers. Hamra and the Jungle of Memories is a stunning retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” that brims with big emotions, big adventure and very big teeth.
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