From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughtersand her communitythrough times of drought and violence in their Harare neighborhood.From the red soil of her garden in Southgate 1, a crowded suburb of Harare, Nyeredzi watches the world. She knows not to venture beyond the grasses that fence them off from the bush, where the citys violent criminals and young lovers claim the night.But on this red soil, she is sovereign. It is here where she learns how to kill snakes, how to fight off a man, and how to take what she is due. It is here where Nyeredzi and her three older sisters are raised, and where they will each find a different destiny.Decades prior, a young woman abandons a position of great power to seek justice in the secondChimurenga War, only to return to find her world in shambles. So Zuva Mutongi sets off to build a world of her own, raising four daughtersNyeredzi, Hannah, Abigail, and Ruthand defending them from the evils beyond their small Harare home. But when a letter from her longestranged brother calls her back to a past life, Zuva must reconcile with her duty and heal the broken community she left behind.Tsitsi Mapepas vibrant debutis the history of a new Zimbabwe, withresilient women and men who raised a nation from its ashes.It is the chronicle of an Lshaped house, longawaited and much beloved, and the guests, welcome and unwelcome, who cross its threshold. It is the...

Binding: Paperback;282 pages; Publisher: Catalyst Book Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 428 g; Dimensions: 133 x 204 x 19

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