HarperCollins’s Camel — Masha Hamilton, author of Staircase of a Thousand Steps and The Distance Between Us, has sold her third novel, The Camel Bookmobile, to Harper’s Jonathan Burnham and Claire Wachtel via agent Marly Rusoff. Burnham and Wachtel acquired world English rights for low six figures. The novel tells the story of an idealistic American librarian who leaves Brooklyn to work in Africa for a relief organization that sends books on the backs of camels to remote villages, setting off a feud among a nomadic tribe the program aims to help. Hamilton lives in New York, where she writes for the Associated Press and teaches creative writing.
