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"It is the end, or maybe the beginning, of another story. Every story begins and ends with a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a girl, a child. Every story is a birth…"
Then in walks Mama Kadie. "She was the first to arrive where it seemed the wind no longer exhaled."
This is an extraordinary work of fiction. Beah understands deep in his African soul the power of the story. He tells us the story of the town of Imperi as it tries to come back to life after the civil war in Sierra Leone. We meet the d ...more
Then in walks Mama Kadie. "She was the first to arrive where it seemed the wind no longer exhaled."
This is an extraordinary work of fiction. Beah understands deep in his African soul the power of the story. He tells us the story of the town of Imperi as it tries to come back to life after the civil war in Sierra Leone. We meet the d ...more
I'll be honest- I had to skim a large part of this book.
The storytelling pieces and the lyrical writing and language itself were wonderful. But it didn't hold my attention as a novel. I think it is important to write the stories of what happens after the war is considered over, when people try to remake their lives. I think it is important to tell about the diverse kinds of aftereffects. It is important for these books to exist. I just didn't feel connected to the large ensemble and never could ...more
The storytelling pieces and the lyrical writing and language itself were wonderful. But it didn't hold my attention as a novel. I think it is important to write the stories of what happens after the war is considered over, when people try to remake their lives. I think it is important to tell about the diverse kinds of aftereffects. It is important for these books to exist. I just didn't feel connected to the large ensemble and never could ...more
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