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Thirst

Elizabeth Cain

A young, black Tanzanian, Askari, searches for the father he's never known. His mother, Iyeala, has kept the man's name from him. Her own father abandoned her on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater when she was only a year old. Askari's wife, British teen Suzanna Farley, has recently learned the man who raised her is not her biological parent; the man who killed her father before she was born is the father of a childhood friend, Safina, with whom she has begun a dangerous affair. The absence of fathers has led these characters into an emotional tangle fueled by secrecy and madness. Ultimately, a gruesome murder forces them to grapple with inescapable truth. As they thirst for answers, the found journal of one deceased father offers wisdom; a revealed father goes against everything he believes in to smooth rough waters for his children; a reconciled father pleads ignorance in the case of shocking abused perpetrated on his daughter; and a leopard father brings his son to the only safe place he knows, a compound where the troubled human reside. Healing comes in slow and surprising steps for the hearts that need it most in this often lonely and unforgiving Africa.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Leap Write Literary
  • Publish Date: May 31st, 2025
  • Pages: 138
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.32in - 0.43lb
  • EAN: 9798893762105
  • Categories: African American & Black - General

About the Author

Cain, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Cain is the author of nine novels, award-winning poetry, and short stories that reflect her passion for Africa, diversity, the LGBTQ community, horses, and the natural world. She taught in secondary schools in California for thirty years and ran for the Montana State legislature twice. She and her husband live at the base of 1.5 million acres of Rocky Mountain wilderness, where they have enjoyed riding the trails, skiing, and running sled dogs. She has spent time in all the settings of her novels.