num_pages: 512
description: NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate mortality love and loss.On the island of Pate off the coast of Kenya lives solitary stubborn Ayaana and her mother Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin also an outsider enters their lives Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself--from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist from dragonflies to a tsunami from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East where she will discover friends and enemies; be seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaim her devotion to the sea; and come to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy. Told with a glorious lyricism and an unerring sense of compassion The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of adventure fraught choices and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world.
language: None
title: The Dragonfly Sea
publisher: Knopf Publishing Group