If you have had enough of doom and gloom and neat categories and bleak outlooks, then this is the book for you!
The protagonist, Imogen, is uplifting in every way. She has been carried on her mother’s back as a baby and toddler, and perhaps this is where her lightness of being originates.
She was born from a golden egg, and she spreads warmth and healing wherever she goes.
To those who long for gravitas in literature, fear not. This novel does not gloss over weighty themes. It is set in an Africa we know. Harsh realities of crime, violence, disease, brutality: they are still present. But somehow Genie (Imogen) transcends them.
She is rooted in African soil, but like a sunflower, she seeks the sunshine and you will love the way she soars.