![]() ![]() ![]() “Tina is that heroine we're always looking for: that character you can look up to because she's strong, independent, and knows what she wants, but whose strengths can also be her weaknesses.” “Life has thrown a lot at Tina, but she's not the kind of girl who wants sympathy,” Anderson says. Her mom is found dead in the study of the corrupt man for whom she works as a maid, and four years later Tina gets her chance for revenge with the skills of a master thief and some serious underworld connections. Anderson’s debut novel City of Saints and Thieves is the best of both worlds for the author: a mix of the hustle and verve of Nairobi, Kenya, with the storied past and beauty of the Arab-influenced East-African coast.Īnderson, who spent much of the past decade working in Africa on refugee relief and development projects for NGOs and the United Nations, sets her young-adult murder mystery in Sangui City, the home of her protagonist Tina, a girl who fled to from the Congo to Kenya years earlier with her mother. ![]()
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