David is giving a friendly (lowercase) reading tonight at Narberth Bookshop.
We've always thought our fiction was friendly, but now it's official: David Sanders's novel Busara Road has made the Friendly Fiction list at QuakerBooks, along with the excellent Lilli de Jong by Janet Benton. We haven't read the other books listed, but the title of Vagabond Quakers does sound intriguing.
David is giving a friendly (lowercase) reading tonight at Narberth Bookshop.
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Our next public event is a reading by David Sanders at Narberth Bookshop, 221 Haverford Avenue, Narberth, PA 19071, at 7 p.m. on May 30.
This is an excellent, carefully curated bookshop run by long-time literary professional Ellen Trachtenberg. Busara is a Swahili word for wisdom and common sense, so it's fitting that Busara Road runs through Ellen's shop. The latest review of Busara Road, on the website of the Historical Novel Society, gets the point of the book exactly. Talking about the discoveries of the protagonist, 11-year-old Mark Morgan, the review says: Mark’s story is one of adventure and discovery, friendship and enmity. His education moves beyond books and blackboards to recent Kenyan history: the remains of the Kazi camp of huts and torture pits where Radio was born and spent the first six years of his life, the actions of Kenyan Home Guard loyal to British colonial rule, and freedom fighter Mau Mau during the Kenyan Emergency of the 1960s. Click on the image to see the complete review.
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