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How Far We've Come

By: Joyce Efia Harmer
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From debut author, Joyce Efia Harmer, comes a groundbreaking YA story of friendship and freedom that crosses continents and centuries, in a timeslip novel exploring the legacy of slavery.

Sometime, me love to dream that me is a human, a proper one, like them white folks is.

Enslaved on a plantation in Barbados, Obah dreams of freedom. As talk of rebellion bubbles up around her in the Big House, she imagines escape. Meeting a strange boy who’s not quite of this world, she decides to put her trust in him. But Jacob is from the twenty-first century. Desperate to give Obah a better life, he takes her back with him. At first it seems like dreams really do come true – until the cracks begin to show and Obah sees that freedom comes at an unimaginable cost . . .

Both hopeful and devastating, this powerful novel about equality, how far we’ve come, and how far we still have to go introduces an extraordinary new literary voice.
©2023 Joyce Efia Harmer. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster UK. All rights reserved.
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ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!

I absolutely loved this book. Not only is this an incredibly heartfelt, complex-but-fascinating, albeit at times heartwrenching, storyline but the narration of all the characters by the author was absolutely phenomenal. The narration alone is an incredible skill - let alone this wonderfully crafted book being her debut work! Even though I'm an adult and this is directed at YA, I was riveted and genuinely couldn't put it down... 100% a binge listen. 10/10 would recommend - and have recommended to many. Can't wait to see what this incredibly talented woman does not.

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