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The Dragonfly Sea
The Dragonfly Sea: A novel | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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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 Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape 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; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.
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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 8mo
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the-woman-who-read-everything
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I loved this book! It was a little more literary than I usually go for, but that‘s part of what made it great. This book provides a great look at other cultures while highlighting the things that all humans experience. 5 out of 5 stars, and I plan to read her first book as well.

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The Dragonfly Sea: A novel | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“He was a man most himself when roaming the contours of life's riddles.“

Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🌺 5y
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The Dragonfly Sea: A novel | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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TBH I picked this up because I liked the cover, but it also fits one of my reading challenge categories.

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The Dragonfly Sea: A novel | Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
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Pasta and new #bookmail! My flowers also match the cover which I find delightful. Happy hump day!

readordierachel Gorgeous flowers! 5y
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