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    612-822-4611

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Desperate Journeys

Desperate Journeys

Lola, Pepertua K. Nkamanyang

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1957296534
ISBN13: 9781957296531
Publisher: Spears Media Press
Published: May 29 2025
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

After a violent clash between farmers and herders leaves her homeland in ruins, Kila loses everything. With nothing left but hope and a counterfeit promise of a better life in Amerika, she joins a group of desperate migrants led by the smooth-talking Kaba-only to realize too late that they've been duped. Their passage is a brutal gauntlet: across searing deserts, through storm-wracked seas, and into the hands of traffickers who trade in flesh and fear. As companions vanish into the sea, enslaved or subjected to unthinkable violence, Kila presses on-only to be trapped once again, this time by the COVID-19 pandemic that turns their stopover into a prison. With her body violated and her dreams shattered, Kila clings to a new, painful purpose: survive, for the child growing inside her. But what awaits her back home? Can she find redemption in a world that blames her for her scars? Will her husband, Jeff, and a patriarchal culture accept the child born of horror? Nkamanyang Lola's Desperate Journeys is a harrowing story of survival, betrayal, and the unbreakable desire to reclaim a stolen future.

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