A Thousand Flying Things

A love lost. A soul restored. A decade of secrets and separation.

It takes a child to lead them home.

American Dianna Calloway is committed to educating children in the thick of war-ravaged 1990s Southern Sudan. Hampered by disease, a corrupt government and a warlord who is harboring a mysterious young boy, Dianna’s passionate calling to help others in a dangerous country is only complicated by the chance meeting of a long-lost love. Faced with the choice to pursue integrity and justice or reconnect with the man she still holds dear, Dianna must make the most difficult decision of her life.

Dianna and Qasim can't be more different. He's a worldly Lebanese Muslim with a political family in his 40s, and she's a 30-something white Christian American. They've been challenged by geography, culture, trust, career, and the passing of time. Now there's a young boy who's stolen Dianna's heart. She'll do anything to get him a visa out of S. Sudan. But when her mother becomes ill, she leaves Africa physically, but her heart stays in there as if it can protect the man who loves her and the boy who needs her. What choice does she have now?

Yet nothing is as it seems, and it may be that no one needs love more than Dianna.

Sweeping across continents and cultures, this captivating novel showcases Ramsperger’s work as a humanitarian journalist and will draw readers in with a gripping storyline, gritty details, and profound sensitivity. The novel is both timeless and timely, as war and climate change attack Sudan and S. Sudan once again. A Faulkner Wisdom Literary finalist and a Pulpwood Queen's featured pick for 2023, A Thousand Flying Things is a riveting, poignant read that will work to heal global misunderstandings and encourage conversations about perspectives and assumptions around race, country, and culture while also showing readers that love, not war, conquers all.

“Beautifully written, a joy to read and highly entertaining in the most wonderful way possible. Ramsperger, quite simply, has written a great novel.”
- Cindy Williams, Actress Best Known as Co-Star of “Laverne and Shirley” - Author of Shirley, I Jest

A Thousand Flying Things is the stirring, standalone second book in the A Bridge Between Shores women’s fiction series. If you like passionate characters, lyrical prose, and well-researched settings, then you’ll adore award-winning author Kathryn Brown Ramsperger’s international tale.