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The Colours That Blind
by Rutendo Tavengerwei
This book follows Tumi, a 14-year-old, who wants to make the Zimbabwean national swim team. We follow his struggle with his racial identity as he is albino and his supposed friends often joke that he is too white to be black, or too black to be white.
The story begins as a family emergency comes up and Tumi is sent to live with his grandmother, who he is afraid of and doesn't feel safe with since the thing that happened. While there he learns of her time as a young black woman in 1970s Rhodesia and her struggles with race, as the white Brits had control of the country, while the black comrades were fighting to get their land back.
The book follows both of their narratives. Both Tumi and his grandmother have their scars from their past, both mentally and physically. It's heart-breaking and heart-warming as Tumi learns about his grandmother.
There is a lot of local languages used for terms such as grandmother, or young man, but Tavengerwei has a handy glossary in the back of the novel.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, young adult and above.
The story begins as a family emergency comes up and Tumi is sent to live with his grandmother, who he is afraid of and doesn't feel safe with since the thing that happened. While there he learns of her time as a young black woman in 1970s Rhodesia and her struggles with race, as the white Brits had control of the country, while the black comrades were fighting to get their land back.
The book follows both of their narratives. Both Tumi and his grandmother have their scars from their past, both mentally and physically. It's heart-breaking and heart-warming as Tumi learns about his grandmother.
There is a lot of local languages used for terms such as grandmother, or young man, but Tavengerwei has a handy glossary in the back of the novel.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, young adult and above.