Tumi has albinism and feels the only way he can be accepted at school, escape hatred and a terrible thing that happened in his past is by swimming.
But at the time of the sports trials he is sent to stay with his grandmother where the memories of that awful night come racing back and through circumstances it it even has repurcussions now.
Somehow he seems to blame his "Ambuya" for what happened but is she really to blame?
When she reveals her past to him by telling her own shocking story Tumi sees that not everything is as black and white as it seems and even his grandmother has lived with terrible secrets and nightmares of her own.
This a wonderfully moving, powerful tale of racial hatred, war, illicit love, family secrets, redemption and the hope of a better future.
Never read this author before but she is amazing.
But at the time of the sports trials he is sent to stay with his grandmother where the memories of that awful night come racing back and through circumstances it it even has repurcussions now.
Somehow he seems to blame his "Ambuya" for what happened but is she really to blame?
When she reveals her past to him by telling her own shocking story Tumi sees that not everything is as black and white as it seems and even his grandmother has lived with terrible secrets and nightmares of her own.
This a wonderfully moving, powerful tale of racial hatred, war, illicit love, family secrets, redemption and the hope of a better future.
Never read this author before but she is amazing.