{"product_id":"rinsing-mukami-s-soul-by-njambi-mcgrath","title":"'Rinsing Mũkami’s Soul' by Njambi McGrath","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"475\"\u003eA vivid, sharp-edged coming-of-age novel set in Kenya.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"44\" data-end=\"475\"\u003eMcGrath writes with a strong ear for domestic tension: food, silence, ritual, class, gender, religion, memory, and humiliation all sit in the room together like relatives who refuse to leave. There’s a lot of bodily detail here — cabbage, ugali, watery gravy, kerosene light, awkward school conversations, swallowed embarrassment — which gives the novel its texture. It looks like the kind of book that uses ordinary scenes to hold much larger forms of inheritance: colonial residue, family violence, girlhood, respectability, spiritual burden; certainly not a tidy “identity novel,” thankfully. More alive than that. Messier, warmer, more irritated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"984\" data-end=\"1285\"\u003eGood for readers of contemporary African fiction, coming-of-age novels, family dramas, literary fiction with political\/social undercurrents, and anyone interested in books that move between domestic realism and deeper ancestral\/spiritual pressure without turning into incense smoke and marketing copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1511\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback. First GB edition, published by Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd in 2024. Copyright Njambi McGrath, 2023. Near new \/ very good, with bright clean cover and minimal wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45649467441235,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_17.png?v=1780921726","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/rinsing-mukami-s-soul-by-njambi-mcgrath","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}