The long-awaited novel from the best-selling,
award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force
set in war-torn Africa.
Esther is a Ugandan
teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced
to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is
struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live
with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American
journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a
voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a
series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot
interweaves their stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits
of two extraordinary young women confronting displacement,
heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events
that test them both in unimaginable ways.
With
mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocations of
Africa's beauty and its horror, Minot gives us her most
brilliant and ambitious novel yet.
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