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Educated
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
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A Family Affair
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of childbearing age must be in want of a husband”
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A Year In The Wild
Email exchanges between two brothers having a rather different experience of the South African bush…
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The Gold Diggers
“We all know our final destination but we have no idea what will cross our path as we journey there.”
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The Polygamist
The first Zimbabwean fiction I’ve read – and definitely not the last as a result of it.
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Intimations
“What was once necessary appears inessential; what was taken for granted, unappreciated and abused now reveals itself to be central to our existence. Strange inversions proliferate. People find themselves applauding a national health service that their own government criminally underfunded and neglected these past ten years. People thank God for ‘essential’ workers they once considered…
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Conjure Women
“Cain and Abel were not brothers, not twins. They were…two sides of the same person, good and evil warring against its own inclinations. The same struggle was borne out in every person, over and over, from the very most beginning of time, and you could only answer for yourself which brother would win.”
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