About A Thousand Flying Things:

A love lost. A soul restored. A decade of secrets and separation.

It takes a child to lead them home.

American Dianna Calloway is committed to educating children in the thick of war-ravaged 1990s Southern Sudan. Hampered by disease, a corrupt government and a fierce tribal leader who is harboring a mysterious young boy, Dianna’s passionate calling to help others in a dangerous country is only complicated by the chance meeting of a long-lost love, Qasim. Faced with the choice to protect a child or reconnect with the man she still holds dear, Dianna must make the most difficult decision of her life. Or must she?

Dianna and Qasim can’t be more different. He’s a worldly Lebanese Muslim in his 40s, from a political family, and she’s a 30-something white Christian American. They’ve been challenged by geography, culture, trust, career, and the passing of time. Now there’s a young boy who’s stolen Dianna’s heart. She’ll do anything to get him a visa out of S. Sudan. But when her mother becomes ill, she leaves Africa physically, but her heart remains there, as if it alone can protect the man who loves her and the boy who needs her. What choice does she have now?

Dianna’s alone in Africa, and nothing is as it seems …
It may be that no one needs love more than Dianna …
But a young boy is about to show her the way back home …

Sweeping across continents and cultures, this captivating novel showcases Ramsperger’s work as a humanitarian journalist and will draw readers in with a gripping storyline, gritty details, and profound sensitivity. The novel is both timeless and timely, as war and climate change attack Sudan and S. Sudan once again. A Faulkner Wisdom Literary finalist and a Pulpwood Queen’s International Book of the Year, A Thousand Flying Things is a riveting, poignant read that will work to heal global misunderstandings and encourage conversations about perspectives and assumptions around race, country, and culture while also showing readers that love, not war, conquers all.

A Thousand Flying Things is the stirring, standalone second book in the A Bridge Between Shores women’s fiction series. If you like passionate characters, lyrical prose, and well-researched settings, then you’ll adore award-winning author Kathryn Brown Ramsperger’s international tale.

Targeted Age Group: adult
Written by: Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

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Author Bio:
Kathryn wrote her debut novel, The Shores of Our Souls, in response to 9/11’s Ground Zero, because she wanted to center and align people and shift societal prejudices and labels. As a young adult, she devoured novels by writers who cared about social justice: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Eudora Welty (a frequent visitor to her university campus), Barbara Kingsolver, and Anne Lamott. Her favorite novel is John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

As a quirky, weird child, Kathryn wanted to shift the world through words and stories. Every summer she sat on a wooden porch swing, listening to friends and relatives weave stories of the day, the weather, local politics, and news from all around. Yet she wanted to leave and live far beyond that porch.

MANY VOICES

As she began to travel, Kathryn still felt a longing to tell stories, carrying family love and Southern lore with her. She felt a pull to see the world, so she became a journalist, publishing in newspapers, magazines and literary journals, working full-time for the National Geographic Society. She felt a longing to support that world, so she joined the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. She wanted to connect the world and its stories, to link people needing help to those who could help them, so she became an entrepreneur, a speaker, and a coach.

ONE WORLD

Through her journey, and other people’s stories, she’s come to see the world as One. Decades from that porch swing, she continues to share stories, connecting neighbors from one continent to the next. She’s given a voice to the homeless, people with AIDS, patients searching for a blood or bone marrow donor, neighborhoods ravaged by disaster, refugees fleeing poverty and civil strife, and victims of war.

INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

Kathryn always returns to the WORD. She’s used words to:

• win the Hollins University Fiction Award for her novel Moments On The Edge,

• write award-winning nonfiction,

• direct an international publications department,

• own a cause-related marketing business,

• create her umbrella company, Ground One, to search for solutions that will result in social change,

• receive literary and cause-related marketing awards,

• sing as a mezzo soprano,

• shake the hands of Jimmy Carter, Princess Diana, and Nelson Mandela,

• break bread with Kinky Friedman and Marita Golden,

• meet people on almost every continent,

• teach and speak to people searching for inner peace, their own grounding, in a world that sometimes seems all chaos.

Kathryn graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English from Hollins University in Virginia, and earned her graduate degree in Publications Management from George Washington University. She’s lived and worked in Europe and Africa, traveling throughout the Middle East. Her most recent short story, “A Green Rose,” was published by and received an award of excellence from the journal Willow Review, and The Shores of Our Souls was a semi-finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Competition. All of her writing focuses on the search for peace and the connections we all share.

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