Brilliant Read

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Tumi is a 14 year old boy in high school. He loves swimming, it's what he is good at and makes him feel like he fits in. Why doesn't he feel like he fits in? He has albinism. He struggles through high school with racism, people telling him he's too white to be black, not realising the hurt of their words.
Tumi is just weeks away from tryouts for the swimming nationals, when he is shipped off to his Grandmother's (Ambuya). The nightmares return as he returns what happen's to his last time he was there where he barely escaped with his life. Will Tumi's nightmares come true?
Whilst there, Tumi hears the story of his grandmother as she suffers racism and violence through the war whilst the "girlie' for a white family.

The is a good five star read and it was at times quite moving and emotive. I love the narrative of Tumi alongside learning the past of his Ambuya. It is essential to learn and understand the historical racism people have suffered in the past, to continue to understand the racism that occurs in the world today. This book couldn't have come out at a more relevant time in the world.