Book description
"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?"
Questions like this sit between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage the nuance of African women's histories. Their history is not just one thing, there is heartbreak and pain, and joy, and flying and magic, so…
Why read it?
1 author picked Drinking from Graveyard Wells as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a Zimbabwean sarungano, Ndlovu is an expert storyteller, and that skill truly shows in this collection of fourteen stories chronicling the strangeness and surrealism of the lives of African women at home and abroad.
Exploring everything from the legacy of colonization to cultural appropriation and from literalized metaphors to exploring the nature of time in African thought, this is a collection that is clever and funny and emotionally astute, rendered in poetic and clear prose.
As a collection, the stories reinforce each other making this an experience to read. I highly recommend it.
From Wole's list on single-author collections of African speculative fiction.
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