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Little family : a novel

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  • Running Time: 07:54 hrs
    Narrator: Dion Graham
    Publisher:
    Penguin Audio, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Beah, Ishmael
    Contributor: Graham, Dion
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2020
    Summary:

    From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone . A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids—athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially their newest member, Namsa—safe and fed. When Elimane makes himself of service to the shadowy William Handkerchief, it seems as if the little family may be able to keep the world at bay and their household intact. But when Khoudi comes under the spell of the "beautiful people"—the fortunate sons and daughters of the elite—the desire to resume an interrupted coming of age and follow her own destiny proves impossible to resist. A profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we're dealt, Little Family marks the further blossoming of a unique global voice.

    Subject(s): FICTION / Literary
    Original Publisher: New York, Penguin Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780593166963