Cosmos, a young Ghanaian man, is seeking a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In Copenhagen, he's barely scraping a living and misses his family in Africa. This book gets right to the heart of what it means to be human – family, friends, love and home (wherever that truly is). I felt really emotionally invested in Cosmos’s search for belonging and happiness – such a tender, heart-felt read.
Dear Effie
Today my search for bottles brought me to the beach.It reminds me a little of our favourite beach in Woe where the lighthouse stands, guiding boats around the mountain in the water, the fabled mountain that no-one's seen, but everybody fears. It's nearly deserted here, so I am spending my day with the sea, which greets me like an old friend. Before you were born, Dad would send me down to keep an eye on the sea, asking me to tell him what mood it was in every morning, before he sailed out. I would stand on the shore and wave to him until he was just a little speck in the distance: 'The sea is in a good mood today, Daddy', 'the sea is resting, Daddy', 'the sea has a tummyache, Daddy'. If the sea had a tummyache, it meant that the wind was high, so Daddy would wait to sail out and we would spend the day together instead. We passed the time looking for little turtles and starfish as we walked in silence down the windy beach.
