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Keen sensitivity and insight fuel this bittersweet story of a family grappling with a personal tragedy in a time of political turmoil. It is 1995 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria and the hard earned stability of the Ute family is shattered when Paul, a promising seventeen year old, leaves to visit a friend, and does not return. The story is narrated by Ajie, now an adult as his reminisces about his coming to terms with his childhood and family. Ajie is consumed with guilt as the last person to see his
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Received this advance copy from publisher. Got to page 90, had to force myself to get that far. The writing did not make me care about this family or even what happened to their son. Mostly just a series of sentences and paragraphs of a mundane life in Nigeria.
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Kirsten Barber
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