The dragonfly sea : a novel
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First edition.
A vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn--she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society--and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana receives what she has long hoped for: a father. But this makeshift family's happiness crumbles as Ayaana grows into adulthood and the threats against her begin to mount: from an Islamic extremist, from the black-clad strangers who kidnap Muhidin's son, from a human trafficker, from the simmering resentments of those around her. So when a contingent of cultural emissaries from China invite Ayaana abroad, she embarks on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will make friends and enemies; be seduced by the mercurial scion of a powerful Turkish business family; be initiated into a world of intrigue and passion and high stakes; and, at last, find understanding where she least expects it. Her one constant remains her devotion to the sea, which pulls her across the globe in search of a place where she can love and be loved. The dragonfly sea is a transcendent, gloriously told story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world"--
Available copies
- 10 of 10 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Bedford Free Library | FIC OWU (Text) Fiction |
31002150793577 |
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| Chappaqua Library | FICTION OWUOR (Text) Fiction |
31005154423190 |
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| Eastchester Public Library | FICTION OWUOR (Text) Fiction |
31008152314023 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | OWUOR (Text) Fiction |
31009154499945 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | FICTION OWOUR (Text) Fiction |
31018155352623 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | OWUOR (Text) Fiction |
31019156023114 |
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| Town of Pelham Public Library | OWUOR (Text) Fiction |
31023151241887 |
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| White Plains Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31544209998459 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31035161770895 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31035161770820 |
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