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Everything Lost Is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho
by Will McGrath
Everything lost is found again.
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I cannot thank @dzancbooks enough for sending this book :)
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I have always enjoyed reading memoirs, partly because it gives us more than a peek inside the lives of writers but mostly because of the honesty that exudes from it. Everything lost is found again is a marvelous book written with so much tenderness that it teared me up and also made me laugh at more than one instance. If you've been following me for a while, you must know how dear African literature is to me and this book being set in Lesotho, I had no doubt that I'd come to love it.
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Will McGrath recounts his experience of living in Lesotho, a small landlocked kingdom in South Africa in this witty book. The narration is so detailed that it ranges from how to speak the language, to even addressing the difference between how the people of America and Lesotho treat the topic of breasts. When Will and his wife Ellen move to Lesotho for 20 months to work for an NGO that treats AIDS and HIV patients, he experiences the cultural shift almost immediately. He keeps the readers entertained by even choosing banal topics like food and music and turns into something hilarious.
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Even though this book has it's witty moments, Will does not fail to show the seriousness that tags along with poverty and diseases that local Lesotho people are proned to. Yet they are content with what they have and don't complain. This is without a doubt, a very beautiful book and also quite painful to see the sufferings of children battling AIDS and HIV. Having said that, it's a literary delight to witness the ease with which the author has penned down this book. It's funny, serious, witty and emotional, all rolled into one.
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Rating - 5/5.
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I cannot thank @dzancbooks enough for sending this book :)
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I have always enjoyed reading memoirs, partly because it gives us more than a peek inside the lives of writers but mostly because of the honesty that exudes from it. Everything lost is found again is a marvelous book written with so much tenderness that it teared me up and also made me laugh at more than one instance. If you've been following me for a while, you must know how dear African literature is to me and this book being set in Lesotho, I had no doubt that I'd come to love it.
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Will McGrath recounts his experience of living in Lesotho, a small landlocked kingdom in South Africa in this witty book. The narration is so detailed that it ranges from how to speak the language, to even addressing the difference between how the people of America and Lesotho treat the topic of breasts. When Will and his wife Ellen move to Lesotho for 20 months to work for an NGO that treats AIDS and HIV patients, he experiences the cultural shift almost immediately. He keeps the readers entertained by even choosing banal topics like food and music and turns into something hilarious.
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Even though this book has it's witty moments, Will does not fail to show the seriousness that tags along with poverty and diseases that local Lesotho people are proned to. Yet they are content with what they have and don't complain. This is without a doubt, a very beautiful book and also quite painful to see the sufferings of children battling AIDS and HIV. Having said that, it's a literary delight to witness the ease with which the author has penned down this book. It's funny, serious, witty and emotional, all rolled into one.
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Rating - 5/5.