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Volume 31 has sold out, but another exciting selection is just over the horizon.
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Volume 31 (Ships January 25)
Running the Rift
by Naomi Benaron
(Algonquin Books)
Subscribers receive:
- A signed first edition of Running the Rift, in a limited-edition slipcase exclusive to Indiespensable subscribers
- The Powells.com interview and Indiespensable Q&A with Naomi Benaron
- And other special surprises!
Running the Rift is the third winner of the Bellwether Prize, which is awarded by Barbara Kingsolver to novels which address issues of social justice.
It's also an extraordinarily beautiful and heartfelt book.
Naomi Benaron tells the story of Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Tutsi boy growing up in Rwanda in the midst of profound political tensions leading up to mass genocide.
But as the country fractures around him, Jean Patrick is on track to become an Olympic runner, which he believes might save him and his people from the violence.
Graceful, subtle, and overwhelmingly moving, Running the Rift is a powerful and important debut novel, and we are excited to present it as our 31st volume of Indiespensable.
[W]here Benaron shines is in her tender descriptions of Rwandan's natural beauty and in her creation of Jean Patrick, a hero whose noble innocence and genuine human warmth are impossible not to love." —Kirkus (starred review)
Benaron accomplishes the improbable feat of wringing genuine loveliness from unspeakable horror....It is a testament to Benaron's skill that a novel about genocide...conveys so profoundly the joys of family, friendship, and community." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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