When her sister Zuleika vanishes without explanation, eleven-year-old Jhoni Naya Keet begins to lose time. Her dreams become transmissions into time and history, her memories rearrange themselves, and a strange radio – dismissed by the village as a broken toy – begins to hum with voices from another realm. With the help of her friends, a shaman who may also be a train conductor, and a graphic novel that might be a sacred text, Jhoni must tune into the right frequency to bring her sister home. But the deeper she travels into the spirit world, the more she begins to question: is she remembering the past, or rewriting it?
The Kind Old Sun Will Know is a novel about childhood and loss, but also about the stories we tell to survive. It explores the metaphysics of memory, the alchemy of language, and the quiet revolutions that happen when a girl dares to believe in the impossible.