NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS\' CHOICE - Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love, and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive. "I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one another with a love so powerful that it transcends distance, time, and reason."--Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward Six-year-old.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS\' CHOICE - Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love, and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive