A review by lindacbugg
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

3.0

This is an unpublished draft
I wanted to love this.

It was good but not great.

This is two very distinct & different books--the first part in Africa & the second in Michigan but it could have been anywhere USA for all it had to identify as Michigan.

Mostly though, this book was about place.

I read this as my grandmother was dying--I remember being back in California in the 1st six months after my husband had past away. I was staying with my Grandmother who was 99yrs old & in hospice care at the time. Maybe that colored how I felt about the book but I remember being excited to read it & disappointed when I was finished.