In the Sea There Are Crocodiles

Fabio Geda 2010

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
survival loss trauma literary fiction

Our Take

A ten-year-old Afghan boy is left at the Pakistani border by his mother and told to go. What follows is five years of walking, hiding, working, and almost dying across continents. Geda renders the journey in the boy's own voice and the restraint is devastating — no self-pity, just forward motion, just survival.

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