No Heaven for Good Boys av Keisha Bush

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>EDITORS’ CHOICE • Set in Senegal, this modern-day <i>Oliver Twist</i> is a meditation on the power of love and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive.<br></b><br><b>“I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one another with a love so powerful that it transcends distance, time, and reason.”—Ann Napolitano, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Dear Edward</i></b><br><br>Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Étienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of