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| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | Fourteen-year-old Tambu opens the novel with the arresting line, "I was not sorry when my brother died." Tambu recollect... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | The government decides, "African children [are] sufficiently developed cognitively" to understand numbers and letters, s... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Babamukuru arrives home with his wife Maiguru and their children, Chido and Nyasha, in a motorcade of cars. The whole vi... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Babamukuru arrives to drive Tambu to the mission. She steps into the car "as a peasant"—wearing ragged clothes, dirty sk... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Alone, Tambu and Nyasha share stories of how their families have been since they last saw each other and discuss the awk... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Tambu discusses the white people who run the mission, calling them "holy" and "deities," yet she finds herself unable to... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | Everyone prepares to return to the homestead for Christmas, except Chido who chooses to vacation with the Baker family i... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | In the following days, Tambu struggles with the news of her parents' church wedding. She feels angry with Babamukuru for... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | As the school year comes to a close, nuns visit the school to administer a general knowledge test. They run an exclusive... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Just as she felt when moving to the mission school, Tambu feels overwhelmed with excitement as she drives toward the con... Read More |
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