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We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
Astounding!
Bulawayo takes hard things - conflict in Africa, child narrators of adult fiction, telling an all too common story in a new and brilliant way - and makes an incredible DEBUT novel. The language, the voice, the characters...all were incredible. Read this book for all of it. Even if you just read it for two separate short chapters that read like prose poems, read it. You will feel feels and be inspired by the good books like this that are in the world. (And maybe also be inspired to make change in the actual world that makes books like these true and necessary).
Bulawayo takes hard things - conflict in Africa, child narrators of adult fiction, telling an all too common story in a new and brilliant way - and makes an incredible DEBUT novel. The language, the voice, the characters...all were incredible. Read this book for all of it. Even if you just read it for two separate short chapters that read like prose poems, read it. You will feel feels and be inspired by the good books like this that are in the world. (And maybe also be inspired to make change in the actual world that makes books like these true and necessary).