A review by donnalwhitney
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.0

I can't believe I have not read this before. The book is about the life of a young girl in eastern Rhodesia circa 1970, very close to where I lived in the early 70s. The descriptions of daily life brought back so many memories, including little things I had forgotten, such as games that I played with my friends (pada!). Many of the names of people and places in the book are so familiar, and yet of course I didn't really know what life was like for my friends, so reading a book from the point of view of a young Shona girl trying to get ahead in her life in that time and place was very intense and moving.