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Based on the author's own Bohemian childhood, the fresh and picaresque Hideous Kinky follows two English girls -- the five-year-old narrator and her seven-year-old sister, Bea -- on a journey through North Africa in the mid '60s. Carted to Morocco by their hippie mother and her boyfriend -- not to mention his wife! -- the girls are often left to their own devices. While their freedom-loving Mum immerses herself in Sufism and sexual adventures, the girls struggle unsuccessfully to find normality. They make friends with beggars, eat hashish candy, receive henna treatments from their prostitute neighbors, and travel with street entertainers. They latch onto the only words uttered by the boyfriend's mentally declining wife -- "hideous kinky" -- and turn them into magical words for game-playing. And in the midst of it all, they wrangle with basic issues of family.

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