Crossing Rivers (The Agikuyu Series) - Softcover

Wilson, Skeeter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692738819 ISBN 13: 9780692738818

Publisher: Lens&Pens Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Crossing Rivers: A young Maasai girl’s world is turned upside down when she is traded to an old Gikuyu woman in exchange for food, by her starving parents. Compelled to become a Gikuyu she goes through adoption and initiation rituals. She falls in love but soon after her marriage her world, once again, changes forever. Crossing Rivers is Book One in The Agikuyu Series"Brilliantly written and uncompromising in its perspective, Crossing Rivers by Skeeter Wilson delivers us into the hands of the peoples of pre-colonial eastern Africa allowing us to learn at their fires, listen to a voice most have never heard, and appreciate a way of life all too often misrepresented." T.L. O’Hara

About this title

About the Author

Skeeter Wilson was born in British Colonial East Africa, along the edge of the Gikuyu lands at the end of the Mau Mau war. The son of American missionaries, he witnessed Kenya’s birth-pangs as it became an independent nation. Wilson spent his early years divided between his Gikuyu friends and the children of expatriates at an American curriculum school. Wilson lives in Auburn, Washington, and holds graduate degrees in creative fiction and African history. Look for “Sons,” Book Two in The Agikuyu Series, in 2015. Wilson’s debut novel, Worthless People, is a story of Dave, a young man who grows up in Africa knowing that one day he will have to leave the only home he knows and go to the America that his birth parents call home. His physical limitations prove an inconvenience to his out-of-touch parents, who work in Africa for foreign aid societies. But while they labor to rescue Africa from itself, Africa rescues Dave from his parents. www.skeeterwilsonnovels.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Lens&Pens Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692738819
• ISBN 13: 9780692738818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202