Summer reads

With a wry journalist and a piglet named Gino as leading characters, I'm hopeful this story will deliver a dose of comedy while also addressing the growing pains of diversity, respect, and inclusion among people of different cultures that share the same land. 3The Orchard of Lost Souls Nadifa Mohamed The lives of three very different female characters-a nine- year-old from a vast refugee camp, a solitary widow, and a young female soldier-are "tied irrevocably together" in this story set in 1987 during Somalia's civil war.