Book description
Unity Dow's third novel, Juggling Truths portrays the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future, asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Juggling Truths as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It took me to a world I wasn't familiar with and featured characters I couldn't exactly relate to but could
empathize with--it was at moments heartbreaking.
I love this humorous coming-of-age story narrated by a naïve yet academically smart girl who is juggling the various conflicting truths of her life—what she is taught in school, what she learns at home, what she learns from her friends and her siblings, what she is told about how life is and what she observes for herself. How is a person to reconcile all these truths?
By becoming the Queen of England, which is what Monei, the narrator, says she wants to become when she grows up since the Queen is the only woman, as far as Monei can tell,…
From Gothataone's list on glance into Botswana’s past and present.
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