We need new names novel5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And when things only got worse in our country, we pulled our shackles even tighter and said, We are not leaving America, no we are not leaving."īy removing the sentimentality from her storytelling, Bulawayo has written a powerful novel. "We stayed, like prisoners, only we chose to be prisoners and we loved our prison. As an illegal immigrant, she can't visit home, alienating her even more. ![]() During a phone call with her mother and her childhood friends, she's more worried about missing out on the movie (which turns out to be pornographic) that she and her American friends were watching in the basement.įor her, the American dream isn't the one anyone expected. She lives this purgatorial existence between two starkly different lands. She slowly loses touch with her old friends, but at the same time misses them, her mother and Paradise terribly. ![]() Once there, Darling makes humorous observations about American culture for example, that Americans smile at each other for no reason.Īs she grows up, Darling assimilates with her school friends, speaking like them, dressing like them. Through BornFree's murder, we understand that the elections in Zimbabwe have not made a dent in the country's problems, so Darling is sent to "Destroyedmichigan" (Detroit, Michigan) to live with her Aunt Fostalina. ![]()
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