The Deep Blue Between
By (Author) Ayesha Harruna Attah
Pushkin Children's Books
Pushkin Children's Books
5th January 2021
15th October 2020
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members
823.92
Paperback
256
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina's home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end but the beginning of their story, one that will take them to unfamiliar cities and cultures, where they will forge new families, ward off dangers and truly begin to know themselves.
As the twins pursue separate paths in Brazil and the Gold Coast of West Africa, they remain connected through shared dreams of water. But will their fates ever draw them back together
Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born writer living in Senegal. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University and New York University. She is the author of the Commonwealth Writers Prize-nominated Harmattan Rain, Saturday's Shadows and The Hundred Wells of Salaga, currently translated into four languages. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Elle Italia, Asymptote and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers' Anthology. This is her first book for teen readers.