![]() ![]() For example, in the beginning we meet a chorus of cousins, most of whom do not feature in the rest of the book. The book is simple in structure yet filled with such beautiful detail, colorful depictions, and complex relationships that–once you get into it–it is impossible to stop reading until you know how where the journey ends. The story begins with Kirabo Nnamiiro, a smart, feisty, twelve-year-old girl who consults a blind elderly neighbor, Nsuuta-labeled by the village as a witch-, to help search for her mother and also to help her to deal with the conflicting emotions wracking her teenage body that make her “feel squeezed inside this body as if there is no space.” The relationship Kirabo develops with Nsuuta is complicated by the contentious relationship between Nsuuta and Kirabo’s grandmother, Muka Miiro, an intriguing relationship which becomes the centerpiece of the story at one point. ![]() A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is essentially a coming-of-age story set in Uganda in the 1970s. ![]()
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