The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell [in Booklist]
31 Oct, by in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Not far from the Zambezi River’s Victoria Falls, a fin-de-siècle colonial settlement called the Old Drift was the site of a loosely described “hotel,” where a colliding incident in 1904 combines the fates of three families originally Italian, British, would-be-Zambian – for a century-plus...