Like Joyful Tears Like Joyful Tears

Like Joyful Tears

    • $18.99
    • $18.99

Publisher Description

In Like Joyful Tears, readers see first-hand the trauma and havoc wreaked by civil war. Victoria Deng of southern Sudan is sixteen when her school is attacked by northern soldiers and everyone but herself and her sister Mary are massacred. The girls are soon rescued by southern rebel soldiers, who are escorting hundreds of children on the harrowing and dangerous cross-desert journey to a refugee camp. Twenty years later in Vancouver, Canada, restless UBC student Abena Walker, looking to do something meaningful and rediscover her parents’ original home of Africa, travels to Ukiwa Refugee Camp in Kenya as a teacher. While she struggles to comprehend the bleak situation of the thousands of refugees in the camp and whether or not she is making a difference, Abena meets and befriends Victoria and her two children who are now living in the camp. Unwilling to let the camp rules stop her from doing what is right, Abena and her friend Frank McClune, jaded from two decades of work in Africa but huge of heart, decide to break all the rules to try and free Victoria and her children and help them immigrate to North America. Although a work of fiction, Like Joyful Tears is based on the author’s decade of work in the refugee community.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2019
March 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
268
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ronsdale Press
SELLER
eBOUND Canada
SIZE
2.2
MB
A Thin Porridge A Thin Porridge
2020
Crimson Arrows, Book III of The Elemental Chronicles Crimson Arrows, Book III of The Elemental Chronicles
2017
The Roaring Slug Vol. 1 The Roaring Slug Vol. 1
2014
The Book of Lives The Book of Lives
2021
EOM: Equal Opportunity Madness EOM: Equal Opportunity Madness
2017
The Undulating Mountain The Undulating Mountain
2014
Golden Game Golden Game
2017
Your Higher Power Your Higher Power
2024
Girl of Newgate Prison, The Girl of Newgate Prison, The
2021
From Bombs to Books From Bombs to Books
2016
Last Pick Last Pick
2021
Golden Goal Golden Goal
2017