Hope Is Our Only Wing by Rutendo Tavengerwei

Hope Is Our Only Wing  

By Rutendo Tavengerwei  

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good condition

Edition: 2018

This small gem of a novel, published in 2018, is its Zimbabwean authors first. Tavengerwei left Zimbabwe at 18 to study law at Wits in South Africa, followed by a masters at the World Trade Institute. At present, she works as an international trade lawyer. The author informs us that her love of stories was cultivated by her grandfather, a gifted teller of tales, and by her parents bedtime stories and their respect for writing and narration, but adds in her untitled preface (in the form of a brief letter to her Dear Reader that (nevertheless) her novel is inspired by what really happened (np).

At a time of national upheaval in Zimbabwe, an unlikely friendship illuminates the power of hope and the possibility to heal--in the face of tragedies beyond any teen's control.

For fifteen-year-old Shamiso, struggling with grief and bewilderment following her father's death, hope is nothing but a leap into darkness. 

For Tanyaradzwa, whose life has been turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis, hope is the only reason to keep fighting. 

As the two of them form an unlikely friendship, Shamiso begins to confront her terrible fear of loss. In getting close to another person, particularly someone who's ill, isn't she just opening herself up to more pain? And underpinning it all - what did happen to her father, the night of that strange and implausible car crash?

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