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The breathtaking story of a feisty young girlFifteen-year-old Rasha is abandoned by her mother in a village with her agedandprobably mad-grandmother. Uprooted from her school and her friends back in cosmopolitan Dhaka, a disgruntled Rasha hasto start life afresh in a faraway place with no electricity, incessant rains, nosyneighbours and a primitive school.Refusing to resign to the circumstances, Rasha rises against them and turnsindomitable. Exposing a bullying teacher, nipping a child marriage in the bud,learning to take a boat to school and teaching her classmates how to usecomputers-these are only a few of this young girl's incredible exploits!But just as Rasha settles into her new life, new friends in tow, she is confrontedby a nightmarish past that once ravaged her family.Will Rasha survive this daunting, and astounding, adventure?