“Shells are houses, you know. They are abandoned homes.”“You cannot run from that which is part of you. You cannot run from yourself.” After a long reading slump (which has nothing to do with the book but my recent schedules). Ihave been able to finally finish The House of Shells by Efua Traore and I […]
We Need New Names, a presumably semi-autobiographical novel captures the world of childhood of Darling and her friend Bastard, Chipo, Godknows, Shbo and Stina growing up in the ironically named Paradise, a township in Zimbabwe. We enter into their games of playing Find Bin Laden, chanting Who Discovered the Way to India? Vasco da Gama […]
I was promised that time would heal all wounds and genuine apologies or efforts to make amends could right wrongs but life is never, has never and will never be that simple and forgiving. I can’t remember exactly what made me decide that I just had to read City of Girls but I supposeit had […]
Jasmine Warga’s My Heart and Other Black Holes is a debut Young Adult novel first published in 2015 by HarperCollins. The novel revolves around the life of Aysel Seran, a sixteen-year-old Turkish-American girl living in Kentucky, United |States of America. Aysel (pronounced as Uh-zel) is forced to live the life of an outcast after her father is sent to prison for murdering her […]
