At first, all I knew about THE OLD DRIFT were the raves of a couple trusted friends, so I was definitely intrigued in the seemingly gargantuan book. After seeing Serpell at the Brooklyn Book Festival for a panel on 'Decolonized Epics: History, Fantasy, and Futurism in African Writing and its Diaspora,' in which she read a passage from the 'future' Zambia of her book, I knew I had to read it, and SOON. Luckily, I found it in paperback