Namwali Serpell Furrows Paperback Book

A powerful new novel about grief and mourning from the acclaimed and prizewinning author of The Old DriftA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR and NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARI dont want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra is twelve her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when theyre alone together, theres an accident and Wayne is lost forever. Though his body is never recovered, their mother cant stop searching. As Cassandra grows older, she sees her brother everywhere in cafes, aeroplane aisles, subway cars. But it cant be, of course. Or can it? And then one day, theres another accident, and she meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who shares her brothers name and who is also searching for someone...In Namwali Serpells hands, grief is a kind of possession. The Furrows is a piercing, sharply written novel about the conjuring power of loss RAVEN LEILANI, author of Luster | Namwali Serpell Furrows Paperback Book