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The Road to the Salt Sea
The Road to the Salt Sea: A Novel | Samuel Kolawole
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As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad�s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid�s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to Libya to Italy, from an exciting new literary voice. Able (…more)
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Able God is our MC. He is struggling to succeed within his family and society. He‘s working a menial job at hotel where he meets a sex worker by the name of Akudo. Fascinated by her, he gets involved with her without giving it a second thought. Unspeakable things happen, and he has no other option but to flee his country. This novel takes you through the vicious migration through Africa and across the Mediterranean Sea in hopes of a better life.

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“He looked at the sullen, muslin-wrapped faces surrounding him. He rarely exchanged words with the people stuffed in with him in the pickup. Words were expensive. They all battled their own discomfort, trying to conserve their bodily fluids.”

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