"Not homilies exactly (though the prose gets rather earnest at times) but, certainly, concerned prescriptions for the child of a changed Africa who's being exposed to all the deceptive lures of a wider new world. (Author tour)"
A mother's letters to her daughter, a student at Harvard, are a poignant plea that she not forget her roots, family, or native country: a first novel from the Zimbabwean-born Maraire, now a neurosurgeon based in Connecticut.
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