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The Long Way Home | Books

This coming-of-age novel asks some big quest ions and arrives at a few honest answers.

"When two persons wish to come together, there is always a way." The final proclamation of Irshad Abdulkadir's Prodigal, captures a leitmotif of the whole novel, that of a voyage full of hope and courage, which nevertheless (in the

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