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A review by bluestarfish
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
3.0
The first hundred pages had me longing for a nice, normal, sentence of a reasonable length and straightforward meaning. Then about 100 pages in the story took over and was interesting enough to finish the book, but I did wonder at first if I would make it. The prose is kaleidoscopic and fragmented, and it does reflect the character's fragmented existences...but I did long for that normal sentence in there. At least one every now and again.
The sins and silences of the fathers come to haunt the sons and daughters in Kenya as the history still echoes through to the modern age. And the glimpses in the beginning do add up to a story.
The sins and silences of the fathers come to haunt the sons and daughters in Kenya as the history still echoes through to the modern age. And the glimpses in the beginning do add up to a story.