Beem explores Africa by Simidele Dosekun

On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira.

When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father

A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.