In the coming months, readers of my blog will be treated to a lot of thoughts on children and war, since I’m editing a collection of essays on the topic. You’ll also be treated to a lot more thoughts on South Africa, since my second novel, THIS THING CALLED THE FUTURE, a coming of age novel based in South Africa, is being released in April 2011. For those who want to read my thoughts on the new book by scholar R. Charli Carpenter Forgetting Children Born of War, the review was published on Feminist Review, August 1.