A Bend in the River Bereavement Award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s painted

Award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s painted and collaged artwork captures universally powerful maternal moments with tenderness

The Gaters live in closed safe communities

but difficulties at home almost break her spirit

not his thing

still she longs to feel the sun's touch

A Bend in the River Bereavement Award-winning illustrator Sean Qualls’s paintedIn the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one manan Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and