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Let's Tell This Story Properly

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
5
(5)
Pages
294
Year
2019
Language
English

About

How far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's collection attempt to measure that distance. Centered around the lives of Ugandans in Britain, Let's Tell This Story Properly features characters both hyper-visible and unseen-they take on jobs at airport security, care for the elderly, and work in hospitals, while remaining excluded from white, British life. As they try to find their place, they drift from a home that feels further and further away. In an ambitious collection by the critically acclaimed author of Kintu, Let's Tell This Story Properly explores what happens to those who leave.

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"A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told."
Marlon James
"Magisterial."
The New York Review of Books
"With a novel that is inventive in scope, masterful in execution, she does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing."
Lesley Nneka Arimah, Guardian

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