Its the early 1960s. Tanganyika is now Tanzania after centuries of British rule. And a six year old girl of Indian descent is uprooted from her family home in Tukuyu when her father is diagnosed with cancer. She leaves the familiar tall grasses of her southern highland home town for the dust and thorny trees of Dodoma to live at her grandparents flourmill, and the girl's ideas about home, belonging, and identity begin to crumble.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781554810161 9781770480339
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.L275 B58 2010eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (167 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00237519 (OCoLC)972735775 (CaOOCEL)478979
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Blue Sunflower Startle 10
- The Entrance:1964–1976 10
- Savoury Orange Duck in a Stompy Orange Home 12
- At the Back of My Skull 22
- Coca-Cola and Cowboys 32
- Before Allah Troubles You,First He Will Seek Your Permission 48
- That Mama Has Big Buttocks 60
- Another Journey, Another Reincarnation 70
- The Exits:Present Day –Flight to Calgary 82
- Departing 84
- Almost Bridal 88
- Connecting 98
- Away From Home, An Upright Place 102
- Boarding 120
- Speak Gor Gor Sweet 124
- Arriving 154
- Acknowledgments 166
- About the Author 169
