Tsitsi Mapepa

Dec 1, 2023 | shelf-awareness.com | Jonathan Evison |Lauren Grodstein |Sarah James |Tsitsi Mapepa

Share with friends:Permanent Link:Eugene Miles is either 105 or more than a thousand years old. In Again and Again, his eighth novel, Jonathan Evison (Small World; Lawn Boy) presents another endearing protagonist. Whether "Geno" is a fabulous storyteller or a time-traveling wanderer, his story is a life-affirming saga of hope and the enduring power of love.

Nov 18, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Tsitsi Mapepa

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin (Columbia University Press). Reviewed by John P. Loonam. “Publishing companies have always helped decide what literature is, who should produce it, and (through format and pricing decisions) who should read it. So, it’s reasonable to expect that changes within those corporations affect not only who sells books to whom, but the content and form of literature itself.

Nov 14, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Tsitsi Mapepa

In a recent interview, Tsitsi Mapepa laid bare her aim as a writer: “My only intention is to draw the readers in right away and make them feel as though they are part of the story too.” It seems only fair, then, in writing a review of her debut novel-in-stories, Ndima Ndima, to start at the beginning, with the opening story, “Sunset Street,” where we meet Zuva and her youngest daughter, Nyeredzi, newly moved to one of Harare’s high-density suburbs, looking out over a plot of land they hope to...