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We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
4.0

Started out great with vivid imagery and world building by sending the reader straight into the streets of Zimbabwe. Then it shifts into a different genre about 2/3 of the way through. I like both voices but juxtaposed together is a little disorienting.

This country was where I spent much of my childhood and I resonate so much with the loss of a place that was never mine.