Let's tell this story properly

Summary: How far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's collection attempt to measure that distance. Centered around the lives of Ugandans in Britain, Let's Tell This Story Properly features characters both hyper-visible and unseen--they take on jobs at airport security, care for the elderly, and work in hospitals, while remaining excluded from white, British life. As they try to find their place, they drift from a home that feels further and further away. In an ambitious collection by the critically acclaimed author of Kintu, Let's Tell This Story Properly explores what happens to those who leave.

Record details

ISBN: 9781945492228
ISBN: 1945492228
Physical Description: print
ii, 289 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: Oakland, California : Transit Books, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue. Christmas is coming -- Part 1: Departing. Our allies -- Manchester happened -- The nod -- Something inside -- Malik's door -- Memoirs of a Namaaso -- Part 2: Returning. She is our stupid -- My brother, Bwemage -- The aftertaste of success -- Let's tell this story properly -- Love made in Manchester.