Ishmael Beah is the Sierra Leonean and American author of the novel Radiance of Tomorrow and the memoir A Long Way Gone, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and has been published in more than forty languages. A UNICEF Ambassador and Advocate for Children Affected by War, and a member of the Human Rights Watch Children s Advisory Committee, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their children.

HUGELY PROMOTABLE AUTHOR: An extraordinarily powerful, respected, and charismatic speaker, and a gifted writer, Beah has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. Congress, and countless schools and universities, and he has been featured on NPR, the Daily Show, and CBS.WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Published in over forty languages, A Long Way Gone, Beah's harrowing, immensely popular memoir of his time as a child soldier, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, named a Top 10 book of the year by Time, and one of Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime. His work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Time,Globe & Mail, The Guardian, and countless others.WARM EARLY EMBRACE: Beah's move to Riverhead was exclusively announced in Entertainment Weekly, and prepubs and bookseller love are a sign of good things to come.FOLLOW-UP MEMOIR ON THE WAY: We own the rights to Beah's next memoir, covering the period following A Long Way Gone and focusing on his transition to life in America with its very different experience of violence, gender relations, family, and childhood.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Long Way Gone.

A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.

Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country s tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially their newest member, Namsa safe and fed. When Elimane makes himself of service to the shadowy William Handkerchief, it seems as if the little family may be able to keep the world at bay and their household intact. But when Khoudi comes under the spell of the beautiful people the fortunate sons and daughters of the elite the desire to resume an interrupted coming of age and follow her own destiny proves impossible to resist.

A profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we re dealt, Little Family marks the further blossoming of a unique global voice.