City Of Saints And Thieves

"Extraordinary young girls fighting to survive are familiar in YA novels, but the protagonist of this confident, breathless debut thriller is something special. Sixteen-year-old Congolese refugee Tiny Girl is surviving in Kenya as a gang member and burglar, biding her time until she can bring down the rich industrialist she believes murdered her mother. Then new evidence pokes holes in the narrative she has told herself. As Tiny Girl travels across Africa and into her family’s past, author Natalie C. Anderson builds an absorbing mystery that unravels at breakneck speed, as her protagonist doggedly ignores all the dangers that come with the truth."