The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl\'s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa.
Richly descriptive and written with an imaginative hand and sharp eye for unusual detail, The House of Rust is a memorable novel by a thrilling new voice..
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber\'s debut is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and diasporic Hadhrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya.
But at home, things only grow stranger.
After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father, and hopes that life will return to normal.
On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters.
She is guided by a talking scholar\'s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too).
When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him.
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl\'s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa
