![]() ![]() The Fordham sisters grow up quickly in the “house on the hill” near the edge of the jungle, adapting to their new environment, which holds both threat and possibility. A palpable tension propels the narrative forward as the Fordhams decide to stay: How dangerous must things become before Sari’s parents will heed the warnings and flee with their children to safety? ![]() Uganda is under the tyrannical reign of Idi Amin, and hundreds of thousands of people are being murdered. They do not see the ants as a warning, that peril can slip in through the smallest of openings, that Uganda is too dangerous, that we should pack up and leave.” Led by father Gary and mother Kaarina, the Fordhams are Seventh-day Adventist missionaries who move from the United States to Uganda when Sari is two years old and sister Sonja five. Fordham, who narrates her story two decades after leaving Africa, writes, “My parents do not try to make connections between what has happened and what could happen. Inexplicably, she is unharmed, though the forewarning, at least for the reader, is clear. The ants march down the hallway into young Fordham’s room, where only a thin bedcovering separates the “churning mass of mouths” from her body. In the prologue of Wait for God to Notice, memoirist Sari Fordham’s parents discover a trail of carnivorous African driver ants streaming in from a hole in their bedroom screen window. ![]()
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