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Bridge Over Coconut Island River: A Coconut Island Novel - We All Must Cross This Bridge (Book 6)
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Series: The Coconut Island
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On Coconut Island, you hear a funeral before you see it.
The radio goes quiet. Market women stop bargaining. Men put down their bottles. Even the goats step aside.
And everyone asks the same question:
Who died?
For forty-one years, Mrs. Martha Ndongo has sold groundnuts from a small wooden table at the foot of the bridge over Coconut Island River.
Same table.
Same four hollows worn into the earth.
Same blue exercise book where she records what everyone owes.
At least, that is what Coconut Island thinks she is recording.
Because Mrs. Ndongo has been keeping a second account.
Not what people owed.
What they gave.
And when the truth about that second account is finally revealed, an entire community will be forced to reconsider what it means to live a successful life.
Forty steps.
That is the distance across the bridge.
Forty steps between the road to church and the road to the cemetery. Between baptisms and burials. Between the lives we build and the stories people tell after we are gone.
Along the way, you will meet Ebot, the boy everyone said was going professional; Eposi, the Diva Coconut Island thought it understood; Pa Francis, who never owed anybody a franc; Pa Paul Bassangem, the richest man on the island; Father Cletus, keeper of its confessions; and the children who cross the bridge every morning without yet understanding what those forty steps mean.
Warm, funny, poignant, and deeply human, Bridge Over Coconut Island River is Book Six of The Coconut Island Series - a story about community, dignity, generosity, memory, and the things that remain when everything we thought mattered has been left behind.
For readers who enjoy the warmth and community of Alexander McCall Smith, the humanity of Fredrik Backman, and the life-and-legacy questions explored by Mitch Albom.
The bridge never asks how much money you had.
The people beside the road remember everything else.
Live in such a way that when it is your turn to cross the bridge, somebody notices that Coconut Island has become a little darker.
Includes a Map of Coconut Island, Character Guide, and Expanded Reading Group Guide.
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