Silver Lining: The Saga of an Orphan by Alieu Bundu - Paperback

For fans of A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Solacers by Arion Golmakani, White Orleander by Janet Fitch and Finding Fish by Antwone Quenton Fisher, here comes an indelible story of the resilience of the human spirit from one of the emerging voices from Africa.

Silver Lining tells the heart-wrenching traumatic story of an orphaned child named Alimu as he grows up in a country torn apart by a rebel war. When Alimu passes the National Primary School Examination, his father takes him to the city to live with an aunt, his father's only sister, to pursue his studies. His aunt, instead, subjects him to terrible mistreatment. Forced to do menial work, including having to carry gallons of water daily from street taps, he eventually fled for fear of torture, and ended up living as a street child, then rescued by a children's foundation that later sent him again to school. Silver Lining is a story about family, love, loss, separation, war, friendship, hope, courage and forgiveness.