β Nadifa Mohamed
π Fiction
π
2010
π Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Harper Collins
π en-US
β 179 KB
π 1 views
Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother--alternately raging and loving--dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed