The Dragonfly Sea

✍ Scribed by Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo

• Book ID: 110483333
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 426 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780451494054

✦ Synopsis

From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.
On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to re-shape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea;...