![]() But we’re here and, you know, everything and anything can happen to us. “Some of these things that we carry, we don’t sign up for. It was an early loss that, she says, means her writing will always have a strong awareness of how personal lives intersect with larger historical and political forces. Ahead of travelling to the US for the publication of her second novel, Glory, she is in Bulawayo, the home city that provides half of her pen name the other half, NoViolet, links the Ndebele word for “with” to the name of her mother, who died when her daughter was 18 months old. O n the day I talk over Zoom with NoViolet Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, she is relying on a generator to power her internet connection when she has a tickle in her throat and excuses herself to fetch water, she returns laughing, having forgotten that there is none today, and relieved that her sister has furnished her with a bottle. ![]()
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