This prose poetry novella explores interesting themes in a really fresh way: colonialism, moving overseas, the meaning of home, the value of postcolonial nationalism, women in both European and African society, and more.

The writing was interesting and quite beautiful - but overall, the book left me pretty untouched. I didn't feel connected to the characters, felt neither good nor bad for them, and I think at times the poetry paragraphs took me out of the story, making me focus too much on the language for me to appreciate the humanity of the story.

I didn't dislike the book by any means, and I look forward to examining it closely in my dissertation, but as a reading experience I found it pretty average.