Sampan – The Last Crossing – Paperback

Among the islands of Indonesia, Budi and his family have built a life around a small wooden fishing boat. The sea provides their livelihood, their children’s playground and a thousand reasons to worry. Money is scarce, laughter comes easily, and even the fiercest arguments usually end around the same dinner table.

But the children are growing up. Beyond their island lies a world their father barely knows, offering possibilities he cannot match. He wants them to have more than he has had. Letting them reach for it is another matter.

Then the familiar comforts of island life begin to give way to something nobody is prepared for. Neighbours cannot explain it away. A father cannot put it right with another day’s work. And a family accustomed to sharing every hardship must face the terrifying limits of what they know about one another’s lives.

From sunlit fishing grounds to the restless streets of Jakarta, Sampan: The Last Crossing is a story of ordinary people pushed far beyond anything they imagined. Come aboard, take a place at their table, and discover how much there is to lose when you have grown to love the people fighting to hold on.