The New Yo r k Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two sto r ies, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 a nd a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water fr om a pond that is two hours’ walk fr om her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the ",lost boys", of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search fo r their families a nd fo r a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship fr om loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions a nd crocodiles, Salva is a survivo r , a nd his sto r y goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing a nd moving way.