Characters Nawra is fourteen years old from Darfur, Sudan; who has fled from her recently destroyed village by the Janjaweed's. Nawra and her mother are placed in a Refugee camp while her mother is still facing severe trauma
Katherine Canneli also known as K. C. is also fourteen years old from Richmond, Virginia; she is Nawra's donor lives with her mother and brother. K.C's parents are recently divorced; and often visit's her father and stepmother.