The Kaya Girl av Mamle Wolo

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<B>This rags-to-riches story by an award-winning Ghanaian author has page-turning appeal with luminous literary resonance. </B><BR/><BR/>Writing with effortlessly engaging prose, Wolo showcases the interweaving layers of Ghanaian culture to create a prismatic, multifaceted world in which two young girls, against all odds, are able to find each other.<BR/> <BR/>When Faiza, a Muslim migrant girl from northern Ghana, and Abena, a wealthy doctor’s daughter from the south, meet by chance in Accra’s largest market, where Faiza works as a porter or <I>kaya girl</I>, they strike up an unlikely and powerful friendship that transcends their social inequities and opens up new worlds to them both.<BR/> <BR/>Set against a backdrop of class disparity in Ghana, <I>The Kaya Girl</I> has shades of <I>The Kite Runner </I>in its unlikely friendship, and of <I>Slumdog Millionaire</I> as Faiza’s life takes unlikely turns that propel her thrillingly forw