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Bezig met laden... And This Is How to Stay Alivedoor Shingai Njeri Kagunda
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Nyokabi's world unravels after her brother Baraka's death by suicide. When an eccentric auntie gives Nyokabi a potion that sends her back in time to when Baraka was still alive, it becomes her only goal to keep him that way. Nyokabi learns that storytellers may be the carriers of time, but defying the past comes with its own repercussions. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Perhaps “joy” is an imperfect word to use in describing a novella that reckons with intergenerational trauma, the suicide of a queer youth, and the grief of those left behind, and yet this story is so beautiful I cannot think of a more appropriate word. Perhaps it is only that, for all it grapples with death and loss, this is a story about life, a story for the living. The love its characters feel for one another, and the love the author showers on both her characters and the communities for whom her story is most intended, are so pervasive in the text that it was impossible not to feel something of joy even while experiencing the grief that also pervades each part of the book. This is a novella that, much to its credit, resists any attempt to oversimplify and flatten its themes in trying to straightforwardly describe what it is about.
Another particularly striking feature of & This is How to Stay Alive is its inclusion of time as a point of view. The depth and complexity added to the storytelling by using time as a character is, at least in my personal experience as a reader, something truly unique.
The brevity of the novella format seems perfectly suited to this story. A short book is easily reread; & This is How to Stay Alive strikes me as the kind of story that continues to reveal itself over time and to share new facets of itself on each new reading. A perfect match between form and content is most certainly among Shingai Njeri Kagunda’s many accomplishments here, and I am looking forward to the next time I am ready to take this gorgeous little book down from the shelf. ( )