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How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author of The Old Drift. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - Vulture, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, BookPageI don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can't give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children. As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars.



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Namwali Serpell

NAMWALI SERPELL is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa 39, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. THE OLD DRIFT is her first novel.Photo Credit: Peg Skorpinski



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