No Heaven For Good Boys, Bush, Keisha

Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mothers kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin tienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimahs parents imagine, the young boys, called Talib , are forced to beg in the streets in order to line their teachers pockets.

To make it back home, tienne and Ibrahimah must help each other survive both the dangers posed by their Marabout, and the darker sides of Dakar: threats of black-market organ traders, rival packs of Talib , and mounting student protest on the streets.