"A vivid, unforgettable account of life at the margins of the margins. This book will transport you to a world you didn't know existed but that you will never fully leave behind. Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama have achieved something extraordinary: reporting so deep that you'll want to read passages again and again, combined with storytelling so propulsive that you'll need to forge ahead to the last page."--Ty McCormick, senior editor of Foreign Affairs and author of Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home "An astonishingly beautiful book. Beautiful in its biting reality. Beautiful in its unearthing of life's deepest, darkest voids. Beautiful in its depictions of land and cityscapes, great and small. Walking the Bowl is one of the most revealing and heart-rending books I have ever read.
"--Thomas Lockley, coauthor of African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan "A powerful, beautiful book. Lockhart and Chama throw us into the whirlpool of cruelty, solidarity, triumph and resilient survival of street children in Zambia, Africa, telling the beautiful stories of these kids' humanity and forcing us to recognize that most are dying much too soon and too hard."--Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio "Told like a picaresque adventure story, Walking the Bowl captures magnificently the spirit of a hard, hard world. An enviable feat of writing and of sympathy."--Jonny Steinberg, author of A Man of Good Hope "A book about the forgotten of the forgotten. A powerful book. No frills, just hard, spare prose. An intimate account of friendship, betrayal and salvation that requires no atlas to engage and enlighten us.
" --Wolfgang Bauer, author of Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story [A] transcendent study.Fans of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Strength in What Remains will flock to this riveting and deeply reported portrait of life on the margins." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "A vibrant account of the lives of street children in Lusaka. [the authors] allow us to slip inside this world as effortlessly as one might slip into a swimming pool. a fluid, elegant crime story, without an ounce of excess, all the more powerful because it is true. it evokes a world in its entirety: the fleshy, sticky smell of a subtropical bus station, the grimy windows and dark hallways of a police precinct. It shows how fluctuations in the price of oil reverberate, reaching the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. Its pages vibrate with life.
Most of all, it tells the story of children who, under impossible circumstances, manage to survive." -New York Times Book Review "Walking the Bowl should be read and studied by anyone genuinely dedicated to real reform and wishing to be educated about the actual conditions of the world's abandoned and often forgotten children." -Bookreporter.