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Bush, Keisha.
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Teachers -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Beggars -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Senegal -- Fiction.
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Bush, Keisha.
Teachers -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Beggars -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Senegal -- Fiction.
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No
heaven
for
good
boys
: a
novel
/ Keisha Bush.
by
Bush, Keisha.
Random House, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION BUS
Subjects
Teachers -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Beggars -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Senegal -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780399591969 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
318 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"Marabout Ahmed, is a highly regarded Koranic teacher who runs a religious school for young
boys
in the capital city where Ibrahimah is sent to join his cousin Etienne to study for a year - the local custom for many families. Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves swiping pastries from his mother's kitchen, harvesting green beans with his father, and racing down to the beach after the mosque in search of sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by a seemingly kind stranger, the tides of his life turn forever. Unbeknownst to Ibrahimah's parents, rather than teaching the
boys
, Marabout sends them out to beg in the streets in order to line his pockets. To make it back home alive, Etienne and Ibrahimah must help one another survive both the dangers posed by Marabout, and the myriad threats of the city: black market organ traders, rival packs of
boys
from other daaras, and mounting student protest on the streets. Transporting us between rural and urban Senegal,
No
Heaven
for
Good
Boys
shows the strength that can emerge when one has
no
other choice but to survive. Drawn from real incidents in metropolitan Senegal,
No
Heaven
for
Good
Boys
is provocative, finely rendered, and hauntingly urgent - an extraordinary debut
novel
that locates the universal through the story of two
boys
caught in the terrible sweep of history."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Black fiction.
Literary fiction.
Holds:
1
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Adult Black Fiction
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