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She Who Speaks with Beasts
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781970630985
Publisher: Authors Hike
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Akiiki was a child when violence tore through her village in eastern Congo, burning away the world she knew and leaving her with memories too heavy to outrun. Forced across borders and eventually resettled in America, she grows up carrying both survival and guilt, haunted by the people and land she left behind. Safety gives her distance, but never peace.
Years later, unable to silence the pull of home, Akiiki returns to the Congo. What begins as a journey back to the site of loss becomes something far deeper. In the Ituri forest, where memory seems alive and the boundaries between spirit, grief, and survival begin to shift, she is drawn into a calling she does not fully understand. The forest remembers. The animals watch. And Akiiki must learn whether she has returned to witness the past or to answer it.
She Who Speaks with Beasts is a lyrical and haunting novel about displacement, memory, ancestral knowing, and the search for meaning after devastation. It asks what remains when a homeland is broken, and what it means to listen when the living and the lost are both calling your name.
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