A review by esessa
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

4.0

This was a well written and interestingly conceived book, and I learned a lot about the history of civil unrest in Zimbabwe and how members of minority ethnic groups were targeted for genocide in the 1980s. The story is told in two interwoven halves, one focused on a family suffering during the Gukurahundi genocide twenty years earlier, and the other set in the early 2000s and following surviving members of the same family as they are infiltrated by a scheming young man who wants to be their surrogate son. The modern story got progressively stranger, and I was not at all expecting that twist to the novel. It definitely kept it interesting, if a bit bizarre.