Aaron Brown 
Bound [PDF ebook] 

The dry, unforgiving winds of the Sahel swirl dust over the plains around the orphanage. Ali, a young Chadian boy of seven, spends his days shooting marbles and playing soccer with his fellow orphans, waiting with hope to be taken away to a different world. When Laurent and Clara Girard drive through the orphanage gate one day, Ali’s life is forever changed. The French couple adopts him and brings him to Chad’s bustling capital, N’Djamena, where motorcycles roar across paved roads and the market is open late into the night. But Ali soon finds that his new experiences don’t align with his expectations, and he is placed between two competing worlds: his native culture and the foreign one that seeks to change him. As the pressure mounts and Ali is unable to make friends or master a new language, he knows he must make a choice between his two worlds–or risk losing his identity forever.

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Aaron Brown is a poet and novelist who lived in Chad for ten years. An MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Maryland, his work has appeared in The Portland Review, Warscapes, Saint Katherine Review, Windhover, RELEVANT, Polaris, North Central Review, and The Penwood Review, among others. He is also the author of the novella Bound (2012). He lives with his wife in Maryland.