Sarai - Softcover

Ellis, Sonica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692147764 ISBN 13: 9780692147764

Publisher: sonica Ellis, 2018

Synopsis

Modern slavery is a crime against humanity.

There are more than 46 million people who are enslaved in the world today.

Sarai is a 12-year-old Nigerian girl whose modest village life is shattered when she is captured by the Ken Jou Plek, an extremist organization dedicated to the idea that women and girls should be kept down. Like all extremists, the KJP are prepared to realize this vision through torture, slavery, and bloodshed.

Certain she is going to die,  Sarai makes a bargain with an unusual ally in an attempt to save her life and the lives of her fellow captives. Tragedy, trauma, man's seemingly limitless capacity for cruelty, the frailty of human existence, justice, and retribution are all laid bare in this cutting-edge graphic novel.

Our goal for Sarai is to get people talking about Human trafficking one comic book page at a time.

Brutally relevant and emotionally powerful , Sarai fits perfectly alongside such iconic antiheroes as Marvel Comics' The Punisher, Wolverine and Moon Knight and Image Comics' Hit-Girl.

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About this title

From the Author

"I can still remember when I heard the CNN anchor say"...as many as 200 girls were abducted from their boarding school innortheastern Nigeria by heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists who arrived intrucks, vans, and buses, officials and witnesses said." Having a youngdaughter and being a female the story broke me.  In the days that followed, I could think oflittle else. How terrified those poor girls must be. What horrible abuse mightthey be experiencing at the hands of these savages? Was there anything anyonecould do to save them? To cope with this terrible tragedy my mind began tothink what it might be like if one of the girls had the power to fight back, tosave her fellow classmates, and to exact righteous vengeance on their captors.Hence Sarai was born.



"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." -Arthur Ashe

About the Author

Sonica Ellis was born in Kingston, Jamaica but grew up in rural Manchester Parish, after which she immigrated to the United States, where she has lived since 2012. Sonnie finds motivation and inspiration from memories of her childhood in rural Jamaica. Many of the colorful cast of characters in her village find their way into her stories. When not writing you might find Sonnie reading (comics, fantasy, sci-fi, mythology and fiction in general; playing video games or spending time with her daughter, Jada-Lee and her family dog, GiGi

About this edition

• Publisher: sonica Ellis
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0692147764
• ISBN 13: 9780692147764
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Lewis Jeffrey
• Illustrator: Grande JC