5/12/2023 0 Comments Bulawayo noviolet![]() ![]() Ultimately what lingers is Bulawayo’s poignant insights into how a person decides what to embrace and what to surrender when adapting to a new culture in a new land. She and her new family struggle while America fails to live up to her hopes. There she discovers a country that has fallen into a different kind of chaos, primarily economic. Yet she evinces a sense of chauvinism regarding her corrupt homeland when she joins her aunt in America. Darling must cope with absentee parents gone to who-knows-where, seeking jobs and a better life abusive adults and murdering bands of self-appointed police in a country gone horribly wrong. What is at once delightful and disturbing is the fact that young Darling and her friends are so resilient amidst chaos. In Bulawayo’s engaging and often disturbing semiautobiographical first novel, 10-year-old Darling describes, with childlike candor and a penetrating grasp of language, first, her life in Zimbabwe during its so-called Lost Decade and then her life as a teenager in present-day America. ![]()
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