![]() "Well, go, go to that America and work in nursing homes," Bastard teases Darling, when she brags of an aunt living in the United States. Poignantly, they know their dreams of escape are lined with tin. They wear cast-off T-shirts given to them by aid workers, advertising brands they can't afford and colleges they'll never attend. ![]() The kids' names give you a clue of how wanted they are at home. ![]() The question it asks is not why things fall apart, but what are the costs of fleeing when it does.Īs the book opens, Darling, its heroine, is 10 years old and living in Paradise, one of the worst slums in an unnamed African country.Įvery day, Darling leaves Paradise to traipse around the city's nicer neighborhoods in a pack of children, stealing guavas, defecating on trash heaps. In "We Need New Names," NoViolet Bulawayo has written an anguished and angry tale of the African Diaspora. ![]()
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