As Waters Gone By

When Pa Lang, 62, leaves Limbe, Cameroon, to attend his son-in-law's graduation ceremony in America, he assures his children and his wife, Mama Ewei, that he would be back in just two months. Little does he know, as he hugs them goodbye, that it is the last time he would see them alive. Five weeks after his departure, all eight of them perish in a landslide triggered by floods.

Told through the eyes of his devoted son-in-law, Asome Bide, As Waters Gone By relates the story of Pa Lang's tragi...