Alma F. Scott Fitzgerald and it isn’t just the

and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college

lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary

”—Jonathan Franzen

like thousands of others

Alma F. Scott Fitzgerald and it isn’t just theFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE PRIX SORCIRES From Europe to Africa, to the Caribbean, Alma tells a gripping story of hope, perseverance, and love. Vivid and exactthis is a book about heroism.The New York Times 1786. Alma lives with her family in an African valley, isolated from the rest of the world. Her days are spent exploring their blissful homeland; until her little brother finds the only way out. Meanwhile, in Lisbon, the petty