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Tall Water

By SJ Sindu
Illustrators Illustrated by Dion MBD Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher HarperCollins Imprint HarperAlley ISBN

9780063090163

Tall Water

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A powerful coming-of-age teen graphic novel by SJ Sindu and Dion MBD that follows one girl’s journey to Sri Lanka to reconnect with her long-lost mother during the devastating tsunami of 2004.



Ever since she turned sixteen, Nimmi has wanted to see her mother. Though she has a loving but overprotective father and a budding relationship, she yearns to travel to Sri Lanka to confront the mother who refused to leave the island during a war, not even for Nimmi’s sake. Her father is going back for the first time as a reporter on assignment, but he refuses to take her, deeming Sri Lanka too dangerous.



But then Nimmi's mother appears to her in a dream, asking her to come find her, and Nimmi knows she must go. Her father is livid when he sees her at baggage claim, but by then it’s too late, and he reluctantly agrees to help Nimmi make contact with her mother. In Sri Lanka, Nimmi tags along with her father and his guide, past checkpoints and armed soldiers and increasing hints of the war that rages there.



However, the day after Christmas, disaster strikes and a tsunami ravages the island. Stranded amid the devastation and destruction, can Nimmi reunite with her mother? Through her journey, Nimmi might just learn that the person she most needed to find was herself.
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