Book Beginnings on Fridays/The Friday 56/Friday Four Fill-in Fun Blog Hop

Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.

There is dust in this caravan of a classroom, and Mira the teacher's hair is fake orange and scorched at the tips. We are seniors now, seventeen, and we have almost finished all of Israel's history. We finished history of the world in the tenth grade.

~Page 1,  The people of forever are not afraid by Shani Boianjiu

The Friday 56 is a fun meme to do hosted by Freda's Voice. If you'd like to join on the fun go to The Friday 56.

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

The boys, I think. The boys. Boris has shot them.
And my breath halts at the entrance of my throat.
Then I run. I can run too.
"They are just kids, " I shout at Boris as I kick him, then jump above him lying on the cement.

~Page 56, The people of forever are not afraid by Shani Boianjiu

Book Description:

Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, passing notes to each other to alleviate the universal boredom of teenage life. When they are conscripted into the army, their lives change in unpredictable ways, influencing the women they become and the friendship that they struggle to sustain. Yael trains marksmen and flirts with boys. Avishag stands guard, watching refugees throw themselves at barbed-wire fences. Lea, posted at a checkpoint, imagines the stories behind the familiar faces that pass by her day after day. They gossip about boys and whisper of an ever more violent world just beyond view. They drill, constantly, for a moment that may never come. They live inside that single, intense second just before danger erupts.

In a relentlessly energetic and arresting voice marked by humor and fierce intelligence, Shani Boianjiu creates an unforgettably intense world, capturing that unique time in a young woman's life when a single moment can change everything.

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Every Friday, Hilary of Feeling Beachie lists four statements with a blank for you to fill in on your own blogs

This week’s statements:

1. I never sleep well
2. Lying is hard for me
3. My favorite place is home to vacation in the summer because it gives me endless days to read.
4. The best concert I’ve seen was a new unknown group in Delhi because it had the best songs played in wonderful voices