Handwalla Bwana is a freshman star on the UW men’s soccer team and has the potential to be the best prospect to come out of Seattle. But he must make peace with a complicated journey that began in a Kenyan refugee camp.
Handwalla Bwana felt closest to God in the silence of the night.
Bwana craved the isolation of being the last one in the mosque, allowing his pulse to slow, a sense of peacefulness gradually spreading outward into his bones. Even now he can recall the scent of the room, burnt candles imported from Saudi Arabia.