A review by girlvsbookshelf
Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

3.0

Really mixed feelings about this one. Parts of it were brilliant but as a whole novel it felt hyper-stylised and bloated, just hard work really. It perfectly evokes the sense of dread, corruption, chaos and turmoil in wider Kenya, and sparked me to go and do wider reading into the political background to this novel, of which I was previously woefully ignorant. But the characters themselves didn't particularly grab me. And the poetic language is laid on so thick that I read and re-read certain passages and am still not 100% sure what was happening. I'm left feeling like I've finished a chore, unfortunately.