In a first person narration, Patchwork is a poignant tale set in Zambia in the 1970s – 80s in which, the protagonist, 9 year old Pumpkin is an unwilling accomplice in her mother’s alcoholism, hiding her empty bottles, mopping up her vomit and heaving her unconscious weight into bed night after night.
I read it again for this review and was still enthralled by its brilliant but simple crafting of sentences that together form a very emotive tale. I bought the book while waiting for a flight to someplace and for the first time, wished my flight would be delayed or that we would have some kind of detour up in the air I didn’t want to put the book down. I read Patchwork, Ellen Banda-Aaku’s debut adult novel and winner of the Penguin Prize for African writing, when it was released in 2011.
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