![]() ![]() But with Arthur, disaster is always just around the corner, and as he sees it peeking around that corner, he decides to take action. He has achieved some moderate success as a novelist and the future suddenly looks if not rosy at least a light shade of pink. Things are going well for him professionally as well. I still mostly enjoyed reading about his misadventures, but I sometimes got quite impatient with him, and, in the end, debated with myself about what rating to give.Īrthur Less, as we meet him this time, is in a committed if somewhat fraught relationship with his lover, Freddy Peleu. Apparently, my tastes have changed somewhat since then because, in this latest entry, I often found him quite irritating and didn't like him so much. When I read the first book about this character in 2018, entitled simply Less, I loved it and him. ![]()
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![]() She attends school for the next two years. Matimba points out that Tambu will be able to support the family with a job if she's educated. Matimba is able to raise ten pounds for Tambu's education. By telling a white woman that Tambu is an orphan, Mr. Matimba, broke up the fight, listened to Tambu's story, and offered to help her sell her corn in Umtali. ![]() At Sunday school, Tambu discovered that Nhamo was the one stealing them and attacked him. When the corn was ripe, the cobs began to disappear. Instead, Tambu asked for corn to grow so she could raise her own school fees. Jeremiah insisted that Tambu didn't need to go to school, while Mainini counseled Tambu to learn to carry the weight of womanhood and make sacrifices. While he was gone, Tambu's family was unable to send Tambu after her first year of school. Babamukuru went to England in 1960 to study with his wife, Maiguru, and two children, Nyasha and Chido. Her highly educated uncle, Babamukuru, insisted that Nhamo begin school early. Tambu begins to dislike Nhamo long before he dies in 1968. She'd like to explain how she came to feel that way and tell the stories of her aunt Lucia, her mother, Mainini, her aunt Maiguru, and her cousin, Nyasha. ![]() The narrator, a woman named Tambu, tells the reader that she wasn't sorry when her brother Nhamo died. ![]() |