A Long Walk to Water
Novel by Linda Sue Park
The ny Times bestseller an extended Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a woman in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that's two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day . The boy, Salva, becomes one among the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they seem for his or her families and for a secure place to stay . Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva could even be a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.