Nation

A boy named Mau finds himself the lone survivor of his island tribe, and meets a girl who was shipwrecked on the island by the same tsunami. The boy discovers his powers (including how to milk a pig), which also helps the girl discover hers - and together they build a nation from the survivors from all over the island region.

This is not a book in Pratchett’s long-running Discworld series, but of course it still has all the hallmarks of the stellar writer. It’s dripping with humor (seriously: how do you milk a pig?), challenges the accepted dogmas (including the various gods and religions), and shows the power of human connection in a unique way. Given all those, does it really matter what fictional world it’s set in?

I listened to the Stephen Briggs audio-book version of Nation via Libro.fm.