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Tall Water

12 August, 2025

Illustrated cover of book Tall Water by SJ Sindu & Dion MBD. A young woman with dark shoulder length curly hair is standing in a tank top and shorts is walking on a beach. In the distance you can see trees being blown by a strong wind. There are waves rolling on the shore in the sand near her. She's looking at the sky though and there is an image of a huge wave of water towering over her, but it appears to be imagined because you can also see clouds in that space.Tall Water by SJ Sindu & Dion MBD
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Ever since she turned sixteen, Nimmi has wanted to see her mother. Though she has a loving but overprotective father and a budding relationship, she yearns to travel to Sri Lanka to confront the mother who refused to leave the island during a war, not even for Nimmi’s sake. Her father is going back for the first time as a reporter on assignment, but he refuses to take her, deeming Sri Lanka too dangerous.

But then Nimmi’s mother appears to her in a dream, asking her to come find her, and Nimmi knows she must go. Her father is livid when he sees her at baggage claim, but by then it’s too late, and he reluctantly agrees to help Nimmi make contact with her mother. In Sri Lanka, Nimmi tags along with her father and his guide, past checkpoints and armed soldiers and increasing hints of the war that rages there.

However, the day after Christmas, disaster strikes and a tsunami ravages the island. Stranded amid the devastation and destruction, can Nimmi reunite with her mother? Through her journey, Nimmi might just learn that the person she most needed to find was herself.

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