The first Zimbabwean fiction I've read - and definitely not the last as a result of it.
Book Review: Fiction
You Will Be Safe Here
“Above all this the stars shine."
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.”
Salt Slow
“In the midst of all these haunted people, she sat alone, without a ghost yet longing for one, her writing like a clasp of fingers around empty air.”
The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2019 (Book of the Month: September 2020)
An anthology of the longlist for the 2019 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize.
Milkman (Book of the Month: July 2020)
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.”
We Are Animals
"A cow looks out to sea, dreaming of a life that involves grass."
Girl, Woman, Other: Book of the Month (June 2020)
“Be a person with knowledge, not just opinions.”
Red At The Bone: Book of the Month (May 2020)
“Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over."
The Woman Next Door
"Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning."
