Far from Home (Street Child): The sisters of Street Child

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It’s not going to help my credibility, or enhance my safety, to tell anyone that I’ve been arrested for failing to pay a traffic ticket. For an adult it was a nice quick read and helped me understand more clearly the harsh conditions children worked under in the cotton mills. A young African girl is born on the land, and then torn from it in very painful circumstances, in the same place but another time, a young white Zimbabwe girl also has to come to terms with losing her connection to the land. Yet, she is indebted to them when her father turns drunk and her mother leaves the family after they're removed from their farm and move without much money to London. Suddenly I am nearly overcome with the urge to scream, to let everyone within earshot know that I DON’T BELONG HERE!

The Houses are a city within a city: nine acres, more than a thousand residents, and countless stories that never see the light of day. If you want to read a story that highlights colonialism, revolution and racism the natives had to endure, this book is for you. There are some quite upsetting scenes in this book but it's a very worthwhile novel as it really brings to life how hard things would have been in Victorian London. NEVER FAR FROM HOME is both a brutally honest New York origin story and a meditation on race in corporate America, as seen through the eyes of a deeply talented man with broad human experience. It was interesting to see Zim culture, It is quite old fashioned but I did love something Tariro said.

In her older age, Tariro, her half-white daughter born of rape, and her husband Nhamo (yes the same one she was barred from marrying she ended up marrying because of the power of love! We did have a tough time on getting some of the spread juuust right but in the end, the colors looked great. Pansexual Taylor is a gamer, a little bit punk, White like Cass, and so, so great—but she still can’t help comparing her to Rowan, Cass’ online best friend and role-playing ship partner.

When I heard the story line of this book I was initially very apprehencious as I felt that few authors are able to captures two sides of an emotionally charged issue. The two narrators, using first person narrative have presented the reader with an intimate and vital view of both worlds.

I do not know much about what happened in Africa during that time, but I feel as if I learned so much from this book! Katie's story was disturbing in that the white Zimbabweans' beliefs about blacks is so at odds with what I know and my own beliefs. I took my references from several of these, and learnt about the different kinds of machinery by visiting working and educational mills such as the one at Cromford in Derbyshire. The writing is spare and direct, making it very easy to read this book without missing any of the deep themes.