Nervous Conditions

oof what a ride. while this whole book made me so angry and aggressive (babamukuru) there … wasn’t much on anything else. i do feel for all the women in this book - nyasha especially - but at the end it was a book where not much happened apart from getting the reader to hate almost every male in that town lmao

The whole trilogy is excellent.

Read 13 Feb 16

I suppose it is a good thing when a book evokes an emotional response, regardless of what those emotions are. I was torn between sympathizing with the narrator and becoming angry with her blind acceptance of cultural norms. I would have liked Tambu to not have been so, well, simple. I suppose it reflects her age, seeing things as either right or wrong and little room for greys.

This book is definitely had more or a „laying the groundwork“ feel and It does make me want to read the second book in this series. Hopefully in the second book Tambu is better able to critically evaluate attitudes, ideas and situations and it better able to express her feeling.

[edit] I could not get past chapter 4 of This Mournable Body . The story may have been okay but the style was horrible. The book is written entirely in second person perspective.