Beah's debut novel tells the story of Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're best by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders; thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Brockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike.
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