THE LUCKY BASTARD

Munyaka is fourteen and orphaned, raised by an aunt and uncle in rural Kenya who treat him as unpaid labor rather than family. When a football injury and a threat to end his schooling collide, he begins to understand that nothing in his uncle's household is waiting for him. Three years later, at seventeen, he finally walks fifty kilometers to Nairobi with a schoolbag, a stubborn kind of hope, and ...