It can cost you your childhood–if it doesn’t kill you.
For the new African country Zambia, 1964 heralds a joyous and turbulent time: the celebration of its independence from Britain. Thirteen-year-old Rianna and ten-year-old Lukas and Anthony, live an idyllic life on Madzi Moyo–a tucked-away Mission station. That changes when the trio stumbles upon two hidden AK-47s and is caught by Mavuto, the guns’ owner, a staunch African nationalist. He abducts them on the spot. Over the course of a single night and morning, a race and rescue mission ensues, which, as the hours pass, becomes more violent and out-of-control.
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Release Date: March 2020
This debut poetry collection takes a slanted view at five aspects of being human: life, love, loss, longing, and laughter.
Pain and struggle and suffering is a given in life—for some more than others. Joy is inseparable from sorrow and pain; joy finds its footing in the latter. Each day, each morning, we have a choice to make: misery or joy. Joy is the better option.
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First thing after sunrise,
scoop two bowls of joy— manna from the desert floor; one you soak your heart in,
the other pour it out:
on friend and foe and foreigner— the only, only way
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