A review by binstonbirchill
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

5.0

It took me a little while (probably 70 pages) to get comfortable with the surroundings and characters but once settled in I felt like the storytelling grew and grew. Undoubtedly it was there the whole time and I just took a bit to get up to speed. The story jumps back and forth in time through the eyes of our young protagonist who is searching for his identity, clearly a stand in for the nation as a whole. The connection between past and present is everywhere, from the familial violence to lost loved ones, to betrayals and tragedy. I came by this through This Mournable Body and I feel that both are intense and well worth a read, probably not back to bad though as both are rather devastating to read.