A Hand To Hold

Life is always a little easier when we have a listening ear, an understanding heart, and a Hand to Hold. This is a debut novel from the international Book Award-Winning Author Seconde Nimenya, who has graced her readers with heart-warming, inspirational, and soulful books portraying the human experience and resilience in books like: Evolving Through Adversity, A Long Way to School, and the latest, Unlocking Diversity. A Hand to Hold is the tale of a young Ethiopian orphan named Adina, adopted at five years old and brought to the United States of America. Under her new parents’ love and care, she blooms and tries to assimilate to her new home, but she also finds herself longing to know her biological parents, and what happened to them.As Adina experiences life from childhood to adulthood, she always feels a piece of her soul is missing. Then through an unexpected encounter with a caring and loving man interested in her and her story, Adina begins to heal her past and is offered a hand to hold for her life forward. Throughout Adina’s story, we learn about one woman’s failures and triumphs as she swims against the currents, and in the end, finds that all she needs is to peel back the layers of her own human complexities, trust her inner voice to allow her soul to evolve. Written with compassion and wit, the author leaves us with a satisfying ending, and an invitation to find peace from within ourselves and extend it to heal others.