Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Ghanaian-born writer living in Senegal. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College, Columbia University, and New York University. She is the author of three novels. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Elle Italia and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers' Anthology.
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Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina have always shared their lives. But after a raid on their village in 1892, the twins are torn apart. Taken in different directions, far from their home in rural West Africa, each sister finds freedom and a new star... SEE MORE