Fiction Friday | 'The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse'

Fiction Friday | ‘The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse’ by Robert Muponde
'The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse' is a magical coming-of-age tale set in rural Zimbabwe.
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Ah, you’ve arrived. Sit down, please, and make yourself comfortable. There may not be much dinner tonight — Father is still out of work; Mother can’t do anything with those stunted maize plants in the stony ground — but at least you are here, in Gushure Village, home to unsurpassed raconteurs and the Guramatunhu family, who know that telling stories staves off hunger.
Surprise awaits at every turn: thoughts and conversations bloom into poems, political speeches and songs.

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