Grief Child: A Novel by Lawrence Darmani

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Grief Child: A Novel by Lawrence Darmani

Grief is a child. It follows you everywhere. It wakes you in the night. It makes you different from other children. This is the story of Ato, a Ghanaian boy who loses his mother to illness and his father to grief. Orphaned, he is passed from relative to relative, each more reluctant than the last. Some are cruel. Some are kind. None can give him what he really needs: a home. Based on true events, Grief Child is a harrowing, hopeful novel about a boy who refuses to be broken by loss.