02494cam a2200385 i 4500 625824770 TxAuBib 20190515120000.0 180514s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018020711 9780451494047 hardcover 0451494040 hardcover DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda NjBwBT rda DLC TJT TxAuBib NjBwBT TJT TxAuBib rda Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo, author. The dragonfly sea : a novel / Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. ©2019. 489 pages : color illustration ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Map on endpapers. 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. 20190515. Families Fiction. Young women Kenya Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. China Fiction. Kenya Fiction. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Fiction. TXAAL