Radiance of Tomorrow

This hauntingly beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone is an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone.Longtime friends Benjamin and Bockarie go home to Imperi after the civil war and find it in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers return, the friends try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers. Beset by a scarcity of food, a rash of crime, and the depredations of a foreign mining company,...
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This hauntingly beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone is an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone.Longtime friends Benjamin and Bockarie go home to Imperi after the civil war and find it in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers return, the friends try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers. Beset by a scarcity of food, a rash of crime, and the depredations of a foreign mining company, Benjamin and Bockarie are forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike.