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Brief Summary The novel delves into the lives of Naomi and Daniel Dassa, a young Kenyan couple, who dwell in the small college town of Pullman, WA, USA. Naomi works and studies at a local university, while Daniel is a member of a popular marimba band. Their life seems peaceful, but the couple’s marriage is troubled by the fact that they are both dealing with traumatic events in their past lives. Naomi narrowly escaped death during the 1998 US Embassy bombing in downtown Nairobi, which killed hundreds of people and wounded thousands. Her brother Guba lost his fiancée in the incident. Soon after this, Guba, a small charter plane pilot, went missing over Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya leaving Naomi without closure. Daniel, a former political prisoner, tries to help his wife through this trying time by hiring a teenage babysitter called Ayana for their two-year old son, Pascal. However, an attraction develops between Daniel and Ayana, a refugee from Ethiopia, and the resulting affair threatens to forever tear apart the already fragile foundations of the Dassa household. ISBN:9789966315717 Author:Lily Mabura