One boy, a drifting island, and a restless sea.
Far from land at the height of a great storm a baby boy is snatched from his mother by the sea. Many years later a young man is washed up on a drifting raft island. To the people he is a welcome fishing omen bringing with him an abundant catch. Waves of fish follow the boy and the raft people stir with a greed that becomes insatiable. The people are not who he thought they were and the boy begins to fear for his life and for the sea.
Panuelo is trapped in a life built on dust and shifting sands, held tight in the fist of her tyrannical mother. After stumbling across the restless bones of a long buried secret, Panuelo makes a daring bid for freedom and runs out into the vast desert.
Along the way she discovers vivid new landscapes full of tricksters and angels, boundaries and borders. But things are never as they seem. How can Panuelo stop running and feel free in her new world?
Dust Pilgrim is an intimate coming of age tale of a young woman’s fight for freedom in a world where dreams and premonitions are as real
as the wind.
Thanks to everyone who supported Dust Pilgrim on our South Island Tour.
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