A Long Walk to Water was a quick and easy read but it packed a wallop in terms of social value. It is a work of fiction but based on a powerful true story of one of the surviving "Lost Boys." Two main characters, two time periods but both stories taking place in Southern Sudan. Nya in 2008 is a young girl walking miles each day to the pond to get water for her family. In 1985 Salva is a young boy who must flee his homeland in the midst of violence, leaving his family behind. He ends up walking hundreds of miles, living off the land, enduring terrible conditions in refugee camps and finally and fortunately ending up in the United States as a young man.
This book was especially meaningful to me because our church in past years has helped to fund the digging of wells in Tete Province and Madagascar. It makes me very sad to know that so many people in Africa and other parts of the world do not have clean water to drink---something we Americans take totally for granted!
You may guess the ending of this novel but I won't tell you---only that it is quite satisfying.
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