RaveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMake no mistake: This is no dry tutorial on post-colonial Africa. Rather, to enter this story is to step inside the skin of young Darling, a Zimbabwean girl, and to get a sense of what it feels like to be her at a particular moment in time … We glimpse the horror of the AIDS epidemic, the lasting, widespread effects of racial inequity, political corruption, deep-rooted poverty and more, but to say that all is bleak in Darling's world would be to get things very wrong. Darling is a dazzling life force with a rich, inventive language all her own, funny and perceptive but still very much a child.
