The Brilliance of a Million Suns

An epistolary novel following a Sierra Leonean woman from civil-war displacement through trafficking and exploitation, told in a voice that refuses shame and easy judgment.

Written as an intimate letter from Adama to her childhood friend, The Brilliance of a Million Suns follows a life shaped by war, displacement, exploitation, and survival. Moving outward from Sierra Leone to wider histories of migration and gendered violence, the novel asks readers to look beyond moral judgment toward the systems that shape intimate choices.