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This one made me angry. The author did not do justice for Kenya in his writing, the lifestyles of the characters were superficial and literally nothing was resolved in the end. I was excited to pick this African (Somali) author who has such a reputation only to be very disappointed. It‘s taken me a while to post about this because I‘ve been struggling with whether it‘s fair to express such strong disappointment but that‘s been my experience.

I thought this had lots of potential: young Somali/ Italian woman returns to Kenya on the death of her brother to look after his children. Full of detail of day to day living in urban Kenya, dealing with the traffic, security, food. But I felt the author got caught up in trying to make points about diverse and changing attitudes in the Somali diaspora, and lost sight of the story and the characters.

Bella has lost her brother in a shocking attack in the first chapters of the book.

I'm loving this cover 💗 #LibraryWishlist

Have any of my fellow Littens read this book? Would you recommend? Please let me know. ☺️

There are days I just wanna crawl in my shell and read. #LitsyProbs

I did not get this book. The writing was tedious and the characters were impossible to connect with. The backdrop is so interesting that I hoped for so much more. I had to force myself to finish it.