Thirty Girls

The long-awaitednovel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord'sResistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities. She isstruggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she hasseen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa,hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after aseries of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves theirstories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young womenconfronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from eventsthat test them both in unimaginable ways. With mesmerizing emotional intensity and stunning evocationsof Africa's beauty and horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitiousnovel yet.