Ben is a man on the move in seedy clubs and pubs in Nairobi’s River Road. In one of those places, he meets a working girl and single mother named Wini and takes a liking to her. She moves in his single-room accommodation with her him little boy and the three become family. Then she suddenly runs off with her office boss leaving her son behind. Ben, a construction site labourer with meagre resources, is stuck with what to do with the boy.
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Fred Juma
Meja Mwangi is such a funny nyang’au! I really enjoyed the humor in this book. Back in high school I didn’t like most Kenyan novels, but this one reminded me that local literature can be fresh and captivating. The storytelling is engaging, the characters are lovable, and the scenes feel very relatab...
