A review by essjay
& This is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Kagunda

emotional medium-paced

4.0

I love the work to decolonize English, and that Time is a literal character. It didn't matter that I don't speak Kiswahili, I was able to understand through context clues. I had several friends growing up who were second generation immigrants, whose parents spoke a mix of Spanish/Tagalog/Fārsī/Vietnamese and English at home. Reading this book reminded me of sitting at their dinner tables.