pickI really enjoyed this poetic look at an isolated Senegalese fishing village, surviving day-to-day on dwindling Atlantic fish, surrounded by graves of the lost at sea. Anna Badkhen hired herself out to fish, and just hung around, watching, listening, asking and accepting. Near the end of the book she uses the phrase “like an itinerant storyteller”, and based on this book and her other titles, maybe that‘s what she is.
Trying this out. Essentially a long elegant a poem, so requires close attention (not my strong suit) and patience. Read by the author (a plus)
Hi friends! I avoided social media for a few months to focus on my year living in Palestine. Now I'm listening to this book & need some advice! Have any of you read it? I was so excited that I bought it the day it came out & now I'm barely dragging myself through it. 😩 The material should be interesting, but the writing is flowery, touchy-feely, & repetitive. I don't want to DNF bc I want to learn about the topic, but it's painful to read. 😩
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea | 
