Sarah Bagby, Watermark Books & Café (Wichita, KS) She is an amazing talent to keep an eye on.” Coetzee–while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. “This debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her –from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Bulawayo has fashioned for is utterly distinctive – by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative.” - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel … The voice Ms. When Darling escapes to suburban America, she finds that-far from the comforts of her childhood community-America’s abundance is hard to reach, and she reckons alone with the sacrifices and mixed rewards of assimilating.Ĭhanneling the rhythm and vibrancy of the storytellers who raised her in Zimbabwe, Bulawayo tells a potent story of displacement and arrival, at once disarmingly playful and devastatingly candid, with a power all its own. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the schools closed, before their fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But they are shadowed by memories of Before.
Ten-year-old Darling and her friends navigate their shantytown with the exuberance and mischievous spirit of children everywhere.
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