RaveThe New York Times Book Review...[an] immersive, exhilarating memoir ...This memoir adds an essential voice to the genre of migrant literature, challenging false popular narratives that migration is optional, permanent and always results in a better life ... The Dragons, the Giant, the Women also resists the pervasive, narrow-minded, gratuitously violent stereotypes of Africa that haunt Tutu during her school years in the West ... Those starving right now for physical contact with loved ones outside their immediate homes will find special resonance in Tutu’s parents’ eventual reunion in Sierra Leone ... Likewise, separations in this book are written with equal intimacy, and heartbreak ... The book, jumping confidently across decades and continents and even narrative perspectives, closes with a section of such masterful danger and suspense that the reader is afraid for Moore’s life, although we know the ending...
