Somewhere near the end, the author made me tear up I was so caught up with Willa and her delicate frailty. I was sent this pdf format of the book and I was surprised at how quickly I could read it but then was required to stop and really think about these characters and what was happening. The dilemma, crisis, and resolution of the main character’s challenge was well done.
This is a story which fits with current events in the world and certainly past behaviors of countries and individuals. I became so quickly invested in it that I was caught by surprise by this beauty and the words said and unsaid as it was building. The description of the main relationship is beautiful. With the minor characters, we have described just what we need to know. The author is quite good at describing the main characters with the reader getting to know their thoughts and feelings thoroughly with no wasted dialogue or extra scenes. I loved it for the finesse on the writing with words so simply stated but always carrying great weight and power as well as the main characters who represented the grand ideals of intellect and compassion coming together. I’m going to wing this review as I am still a bit overwhelmed. Get it from Bookshop, Target, or your local bookstore via Indiebound here.This is an ARC graciously provided to me by Ylva Publishing
To extend your trip around Africa through both past and future, check out Dream Country by Shannon Gibney, partially set in 19th century Liberia When the Ground Is Hard by Malla Nunn, set in 1960s Swaziland Rebels by Accident by Patricia Dunn, set in 2011 Egypt, and Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani and War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi, set in 20 Nigeria, respectively. Everything seems hopeless - at least until Shamiso finds a lifeline to the truth that may not ease her pain, but will help her make more sense of it. She doesn't fit in, she's still grieving her father, and the one friend she does make is suffering too, diagnosed with cancer. It would be a culture shock for Shamiso under any circumstances, having grown up in London, but 2008 is an especially difficult time, between the political upheaval and the massive economic downturn. When Shamiso's journalist father is killed in an accident, she and her mother move back to Zimbabwe.
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