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Cardboard City
Cardboard City | Katarina Jovanovic
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"Cardboard City follows the lives of two young teens--members of a Romani family. Saida and Nikola experience harsh discrimination at school and crushing poverty in their improvised settlement, spread out under a bridge in Belgrade. Their dreams of escape and of leaving deplorable conditions behind trigger a family crisis. In particular, Nikola is a gifted trumpeter and aspires to be a famous musician, but it proves challenging to surmount the enormous barriers between his present situation and the self-mastery and life of dignity he seeks."--
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An eye opening story about two Romani teens trying to make better lives for themselves. I had never heard of these cardboard settlements, but this was a stark portrayal of the systematic racism and poverty suffered by the Romani community in Eastern Europe