There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel

There Are Rivers in the Sky: A NovelFrom the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. "Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf [and] in your heart. You won't regret it."Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great

But then came Anishinaabe elder Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour

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a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world

while Savvy always said her sweet potato pie was to die for

who's set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town

accessible by one small inlet

to stay with her aunt’s family

lucid prose

But their salvation comes at a cost

Throughout Inciting Joy

The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow