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This first book in a trilogy is set in a lightly fictionalized version of Nairobi's largest shantytown. The author grew up in then-Rhodesia and returned to Kenya as a journalist for the Financial Times for some two decades. Toss this lived experience with the warm-hearted but practical vibe of Alexander MacCall Smith's Botswana-based "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" and the results are somewhat mixed.
The story meanders around a restaurant/bar at the edge of the shantytown, where locals, journali ...more
The story meanders around a restaurant/bar at the edge of the shantytown, where locals, journali ...more
Oct 05, 2011
Amina
marked it as to-read
