Y.M. Abdel-Magied’s At Sea

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese diaspora author, screenwriter and award-winning social advocate. Yassmin has joined us on Final Draft in the past discussing her essays in Talking About a Revolution and her children’s novel Listen Layla. Today she is joining us with her literary fiction debut, At Sea.

Zainab has spent her life on oil rigs living the fly in fly out life. When her boss calls her back from leave to investigate strange goings on on the rig Clarissa Clyde, she knows this could be her big break.

Joining a rig near the end of a drill isn’t easy. As a woman on the rigs Zainab knows she won’t get an easy ride, let alone an open door to the mysteries plaguing the Clarissa Clyde. She is determined though, and haunted by her bosses words, ‘Make sure everyone gets out alive’.

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