In Farook’s (The Girl Who Stole an Elephant) second outing set on the beautiful, Sri Lanka-inspired island of Serendib, the lives of grieving fisher boy Razi and his sister Shifa are further upended ...
In the island kingdom of Serendib, 12-year-old Chaya—“medium-brown complexion, hair in a long plait”—is the daughter of the village headman, “a minor official of the King,” and serves as her village’s ...