Coming-of-age + feminism intersections in Zimbabwe, pretty much means I was destined to really like this, and I liked it more than I expected. A pleasant surprise was my getting along very well with both the narration on the audiobook as well as finding the authorial voice for the character having a lot of personality in the prose work, which can really flatten out in this format.

It is fairly challenging, but in the ways you expect. And it has the device in which an older, erudite version of the narrator is telling the story, so the reading isn’t stuck with a childish and simple voice. I really like that; it’s almost a requirement for me these days in coming-of-age. The protagonist is whipped and harmed in other ways during her struggle to find some measure of autonomy, primarily through education. The characters are well realized; the plot, probably predictable but executed well. It falls into the solid bit of writing camp, for me.