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redcupbookclub 's review for:
We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
This is a beautifully tragic story. It is one that is all too familiar to way too many. The tragedy does not necessarily lie the condition in which the characters live in the beginning of the book, but in the loss that they are forced to endure by the end.
It is easy to feel sorry for them as they stand as victims of a country that seems to have been forgotten by God, but it is downright heartbreaking to know that they dream of an America that will deliver and embrace them. As with most things, the dream that Darling had been creating most of her childhood, as a way to cope with her reality, withered in the face of the American reality.
So the question: Live in a state of perpetual hunger and need? OR Live in a perpetual state of wandering and longing? It is unfair for anyone to have to make that decision.
It is easy to feel sorry for them as they stand as victims of a country that seems to have been forgotten by God, but it is downright heartbreaking to know that they dream of an America that will deliver and embrace them. As with most things, the dream that Darling had been creating most of her childhood, as a way to cope with her reality, withered in the face of the American reality.
So the question: Live in a state of perpetual hunger and need? OR Live in a perpetual state of wandering and longing? It is unfair for anyone to have to make that decision.