{"id":19806,"date":"2016-09-19T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=19806"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T16:40:28","slug":"petina-gappah-a-short-history-of-zaka-the-zulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/09\/19\/petina-gappah-a-short-history-of-zaka-the-zulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Petina Gappah: “A Short History of Zaka the Zulu”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"A Short History of Zaka the Zulu\"<\/strong><\/span>\r\nby Petina Gappah<\/span>\r\nOriginally published in the September 26, 2016 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"september-26-2016\"<\/a>Petina Gappah’s name came up on the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (R.I.P.) a few years ago when her first collection of stories, 2009’s\u00a0An Elegy for Easterly<\/em>, was shortlisted for the prize. The collection also won the Guardian First Book Award. Last year, she published her debut novel,\u00a0The Book of Memory<\/em>, and her second story collection,\u00a0Rotten Row<\/em>, is coming out in the U.K. later this fall (I don’t see a U.S. publication date yet). I haven’t read anything by her yet, but what I’m seeing this morning as I’m doing a bit of research for this post, is very interesting. She does not like being called the voice of Zimbabwe just because she writes stories set in Zimbabwe — so don’t do that here!<\/p>\n
I look forward to the story and to the discussion below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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