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We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

(Zimbabwe)

Zingy! Stories told through an intense barrage of images; from a childhood spent running around a slum, in a place of belonging and dreaming big, to America, adrift in a land of 'possibility'. More like a collection of loosely connected short stories than a linear novel, so don't expect a neat wrapping up of plot. Ends abruptly and unconcluded, which might be frustrating for some. Personally, I enjoyed getting swept along in this mad current.