Waiting

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Waiting is written by Goretti Kyomuhendo and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1558619178 (ISBN 10) and 9781558619173 (ISBN 13).

A Ugandan author's "unsettling and richly atmospheric" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin's dictatorship ( Publishers Weekly). Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" when troops of his use the local highway to escape anti-Amin Ugandan and Tanzanian allied forces. With her pregnant mother on the verge of labor, her brother anxious to join the Liberators, and a house full of hungry siblings, neighbors, and refugees, Alinda learns what it takes to endure terrible hardship, and to hope for a better tomorrow . . . Set in the seventies during Idi Amin's last year of rule, Waiting evokes the fear and courage of a close-knit society in a novel "full of human interplay and pungent smaller events, told with a verbal chastity reflecting both tension and dawning adult consciousness" ( Booklist).