The Heaven Shop
The Heaven Shop is set in present day Malawi, and when the story opens, Binti, a shallow, self-centered young girl, lives with her father, brother, and sister. As the story unfolds, her father, a coffin-maker, dies of AIDS and the children are sent off to different member of the family where they are treated very poorly. Binti runs away to her grandmother’s small hut, where she learns through great adversity what is truly important to her.