With Tales of Magical Girlhood, New Kenyan Fiction Enchants

Okwiri Oduor’s “Things They Lost” joins Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “House of Rust” and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s “The Dragonfly Sea” as one of three recently published novels by Kenyan women that place Kenyan girls at the center of a magical quest.

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