Kintu

by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Kintu is about creating family ties where none existed before, about making homes and families that can reach across the gaps of time and space; it’s also about making up new truths when the old ones are lost

As the lucky corpse is wheeled toward its loved ones, the other corpses seem to stare forlornly as if waiting for someone, anyone at all who once loved them, to come and take them home.

It was taboo to ask who was cousin, niece, or nephew. Only Ruth was niece in the house and only she called Bweeza aunt.

Isaac had never met a mental health sufferer who accepted his mental condition as just that—people always claimed that it had to be supernatural.