![]() ![]() When she daydreams over a guava smuggled through the mail that transports her to Zimbabwe, we are with her. A review- We need new names Author: NoViolet Bulawayo Cover rating: 3/5 Overall rating:4. We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo Chapter by chapter, Bulawayo ticks off the issues that a state-of-the-nation novel by an African should cover the hypocrisies of the church, elections. ![]() ![]() In the second half of the book, when Darling moves to Michigan, she pines for home even as she tries to lead a typical American teenage life with the access to Facebook and Internet pornography this entails. In Darling, Bulawayo has created a fresh, believable voice of a young woman that stays true to her age and perspective while conveying eye-opening layers of knowledge, pairing innocence with singular experience. It’s easy to see why Bulawayo, a Zimbabwe native who earned degrees at Texas A&M-Commerce, Southern Methodist University and Cornell and currently holds a prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, has won so many accolades even before publishing her first book. Darling’s father returns when he’s dying of AIDS, a pervasive specter the kids know as “the Sickness.” Yet these kids are not downtrodden - on the contrary, they are proud, resourceful, witty, boastful and always dreaming of better days. ![]()
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