THE BALLOON THIEF
Feb 23, 2022
1 minute
Jayne Nelson
RELEASED 3 MARCH
400 pages | Paperback/ebook
Author Aneesa Marufu
Publisher Chicken House
to chew on in this debut from explores both women’s rights and racism (flipping the status quo, so that darker skins rule whiter ones). Don’t hesitate for fear these themes will be rammed down your throat: Marufu skilfully avoids heavy-handedness, and her tale also includes fascinating magic, jinn, ifrits and alternate dimensions.
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