Things They Lost
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'Magical, beguiling... Carries echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved' Guardian
A Vulture 'Book We Can't Wait to Read in 2022'
They had not lost anyone that year, or the ones they had lost were not worth remembering...
Set in the fictional Kenyan town of Mapeli, Things They Lost tells the story…
Why read it?
1 author picked Things They Lost as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If minds were gardens, Okwiri Odour’s would be lush and strange, monochromatic, and with a tinge of color. I loved the absolute tenderness with which she wrote her characters.
I loved that the strangeness of things in this book made me both chuckle and question the possibility of worlds.
From Ama's list on the inner lives of women.
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