The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

Set in the Andaman Islands over the course of oppressive imperial regimes, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali is a complex, gripping homage to those omitted from the collective memory. Nomi and Zee are Local Borns-their father a convict condemned by the British to the Andaman Islands, their mother shipped off with him.The islands are an inhospitable place, despite their surreal beauty.In this unreliable world, the children have their friend Aye, the pet hen Priya and the distracted love of their parents to shore them up from one day to the next.Meanwhile, within the walls of the prison, Prisoner 218 D wages a war on her jailers with only her body and her memory. When war descends upon this overlooked outpost of Empire, the British are forced out and the Japanese move in.Soon the first shot is fired and Zee is forced to flee, leaving Nomi and the other islanders to contend with a new malice.The islands-and the seas surrounding them-become a battlefield, resulting in tragedy for som