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This Mournable Body
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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π "The constant tension from not knowing if you were as you were meant to be."
Tambudzai left her village long ago for educational opportunities. She lives in limbo, suspended between her visions of grandeur and the bruising possibilities of a post-war landscape cratered by colonialism. She looks for work, which is really a search for purpose. She connives to marry, actually a stratagem to end her loneliness. She plots to prove herself worthy of employment by a former classmate ... and ends up reopening family wounds. The body she mourns is Zimbabwe β mired in myth, pocked with PTSD, captive to corruption and white supremacy. But hers gets in the way, as well β too old, too learned, too unsure.
Dangarembga extends a hand across the page with her "you" of the narration. We are meant to scale Tambu's psychological peaks and shiver in her rifts. But I never quite "fell in" to the book. The few plot developments, quick character studies, inner turmoil and setting didn't coalesce into more than their parts. @KTLee.Writes liked the first and second in the series more than this, the third, so perhaps I'll try the author's other π‘π²πΏππΌππ ππΌπ»π±πΆππΆπΌπ»π.
[PS: I loved to learn at the end that our voice actor, Ojo, is a union member. More of this π]
Tambudzai left her village long ago for educational opportunities. She lives in limbo, suspended between her visions of grandeur and the bruising possibilities of a post-war landscape cratered by colonialism. She looks for work, which is really a search for purpose. She connives to marry, actually a stratagem to end her loneliness. She plots to prove herself worthy of employment by a former classmate ... and ends up reopening family wounds. The body she mourns is Zimbabwe β mired in myth, pocked with PTSD, captive to corruption and white supremacy. But hers gets in the way, as well β too old, too learned, too unsure.
Dangarembga extends a hand across the page with her "you" of the narration. We are meant to scale Tambu's psychological peaks and shiver in her rifts. But I never quite "fell in" to the book. The few plot developments, quick character studies, inner turmoil and setting didn't coalesce into more than their parts. @KTLee.Writes liked the first and second in the series more than this, the third, so perhaps I'll try the author's other π‘π²πΏππΌππ ππΌπ»π±πΆππΆπΌπ»π.
[PS: I loved to learn at the end that our voice actor, Ojo, is a union member. More of this π]