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We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
There is little I can say about this book that will not utterly fail to give it the attention and kudos it deserves.
I hesitated for awhile to pick this up, African stories can be harsh, unforgiving, and make me feel useless and horrible and, well, white. This book however rightly deserves all the attention it has been getting in the press. Powerful, moving, uplifting, informative, cracklingly funny and gaspingly real.
I wish I could express the longing this built in me, not necessarily to have the horror and ability to overcome, but really to have the connection to culture, family, and homeland, good or bad. To have the ability to see clearly the world as it is, accept it, change it, rail against it, love it.
I need more stars, I need more life, and I need more hugs.
I hesitated for awhile to pick this up, African stories can be harsh, unforgiving, and make me feel useless and horrible and, well, white. This book however rightly deserves all the attention it has been getting in the press. Powerful, moving, uplifting, informative, cracklingly funny and gaspingly real.
I wish I could express the longing this built in me, not necessarily to have the horror and ability to overcome, but really to have the connection to culture, family, and homeland, good or bad. To have the ability to see clearly the world as it is, accept it, change it, rail against it, love it.
I need more stars, I need more life, and I need more hugs.