Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhod out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson - all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister, Jimmy and Ciru. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his failed attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya.
| ISBN: | 9781555975913 |
| Publication date: | 19th July 2011 |
| Author: | Binyavanga Wainaina |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press an imprint of Graywolf |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: writers |