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NoViolet Bulawayo

We Need New Names: A Novel

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Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.
But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Zadie Smith to Monica Ali to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.
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  • Olga Grigorevahas quoted4 years ago
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  • Olga Grigorevahas quoted4 years ago
    so I don’t even know what they are doing on TV; I look at them walking on the runway and think, If you were born in my country you’d just be ordinary, your runway would be the border, where you’d just be selling things like my mother
  • Olga Grigorevahas quoted5 years ago
    singing and shuffling and swaying

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