This title explores the coming-of-age of three sisters in post Idi Amin Uganda. Each chapter in this collection of linked short stories develops the theme of exploration and discovery as the sisters mature and their interior and exterior lives expand. We meet Christine, the youngest sister, as a girl learning of the bittersweet dynamics of her parents' marriage through exploring her mother's jewellery drawer. She later learns her own lessons about relationships, including her relationship with herself, which becomes more complex when she moves to the United States. Christine's quiet, uptight sister Patti suffers humiliation at boarding school and finds her peace in religion, while her oldest sister, Rosa, is an adventurous and sexually precocious teenager with a feisty personality. In the final story, Christine returns home to Uganda, in a journey that has come full circle, but not with all the ends tied up.
- ISBN10 1770070516
- ISBN13 9781770070516
- Publish Date 1 August 2017 (first published 31 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 June 2009
- Publish Country ZA
- Publisher Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd
- Imprint Oshun Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 148
- Language English