The Ones We Loved, (Paperback)

<p><strong>"A haunting, unforgettable story about a shattered girl and a shattered boy rebuilding their lives on the thinnest reeds of hope." -- Lawrence Hill</strong></p><p><strong> "If Toni Morrison is a language, Tarisai Ngangura speaks it as well as any novelist writing today. . . .A magnificent novel." -- Donna Bailey Nurse </strong></p><p><strong>A love story of two young people who must surrender to heartache before claiming the peace they seek, from a debut author of unusual power and grace </strong></p><p>On a bus moving across a rural landscape, from town to dusty town, two young people are escaping with their lives. She has committed a crime for which there will be retribution. He is staggering from a devastating discovery. These two will find each other and attempt a new way forward, with nothing to hold on to except hope. But the talons of the past have dug deep, and the wounds have not yet healed.</p><p>Seamlessly transitioning between past lives and present realities, <strong> </strong><em>The Ones We Loved</em> tenderly weaves both myth and memory into an account of two people desperate for connection and yearning for a place to belong. </p><p>Told in the rhythms of oral retellings practiced by Zimbabwe's Shona ethnic group, where the soundscape of a <em>ngano</em> (story)--its melodies, pauses, lifts and stops--creates a call-and-response with the audience, <em>The Ones We Loved</em> is about the homes we leave behind, the lonely voices that find us and the painful consequences of experiencing a love that has never known how to let go.</p>

• The Ones We Loved, (Paperback)
• Author: Tarisai Ngangura
• ISBN: 9781443467766
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2027-03-15
• Page Count: 0