Él estaba hambriento de amor. Ella estaba dispuesta a darle todo el amor que necesitara. Cuando por fin tu vida parece estar en el camino correcto y los fantasmas del pasado regresan con más fuerza para trastocarla, solo te quedan dos opciones: vencerlos o sucumbir ante ellos. El destino no había sido amable con Evan. Pasó de una infancia difícil a una adolescencia turbulenta, pero aprendió a sobrevivir a pesar de todo. Mientras estaba al borde del abismo, le ofrecieron un techo a cambio de algunos trabajos, pero no tenía idea de que, al aceptar, sería catapultado a un mundo donde el sexo y el dinero eran el pan de cada día. Entonces llegó ella, Sadie, tan dulce y delicada, tan necesitada de sus atenciones. Es por Sadie que Evan comienza a desear algo más, cansado de ese mundo. Ella era la persona que estaba esperando, la única capaz de saciar su hambre de amor, la única que protegería incluso a costa de su propia vida. Cuando el pasado regresa para atormentarlo, Evan comprende que solo podrá mantener a salvo a Sadie dejándola ir. ¿Será la renuncia a su amor la única opción para protegerla o su mayor error?
A powerful coming-of-age story of self-discovery and overcoming fear.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Ato hasn’t visited his grandmother’s house since he was seven. He’s heard the rumors that she’s a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his grandmother has given him, wondering if the rumors are true. What’s more, there’s a freshly dug hole in her yard that Ato suspects may be a grave meant for him. Meanwhile at school, Ato and his friends have entered a competition to win entry to Nnoma, the island bird sanctuary that Ato’s father helped created. But something is poisoning the community garden where their project is housed, and Ato sets out to track down the culprit. In doing so, he brings his estranged mother and grandmother back together, and begins healing the wounds left on the family by his father’s death years before. And that hole in the yard? It is a grave, but not for the purpose Ato feared, and its use brings a tender, celebratory ending to this deeply felt and universal story of healing and love from one of Ghana’s most admired children’s book authors.
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