A Girl Is a Body of Water - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

A Best Book of the Year pick at TIME, The Washington Post, and O, the Oprah MagazineMakumbi's prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm--poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations. --The New York Times Book ReviewA mesmerizing feminist epic. --O, the Oprah Magazine International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way back to each other. A Best Book of the Year pick at TIME, The Washington Post, and O, the Oprah MagazineMakumbi's prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm--poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations. --The New York Times Book ReviewA mesmerizing feminist epic. --O, the Oprah Magazine International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way back to each other. A Best Book of the Year pick at TIME, The Washington Post, and O, the Oprah MagazineMakumbi's prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm--poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations. --The New York Times Book ReviewA mesmerizing feminist epic. --O, the Oprah Magazine International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way back to each other. A Best Book of the Year pick at TIME, The Washington Post, and O, the Oprah MagazineMakumbi's prose is irresistible and poignant, with remarkable wit, heart and charm--poetic and nuanced, brilliant and sly, openhearted and cunning, balancing discordant truths in wise ruminations. --The New York Times Book ReviewA mesmerizing feminist epic. --O, the Oprah Magazine International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way bac