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A Girl is a Body of Water

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Publisher: Tin House Books
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 255 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Uganda
ISBN: 1951142055

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✦ Synopsis

A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2020

International-award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and --most importantly--how they find their way back to each other.

In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta--her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing force inside her at odds with her sweet and obedient nature.

Seeking answers, Kirabo begins spending afternoons with Nsuuta, a local witch, trading stories and learning not...

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Uganda

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