A review by piripiw
An Island by Karen Jennings

3.0

Some lovely descriptive prose. Grounded in the everyday and the immediate environment. But lacking social and political context (and, therefore, substantial characters) in a way that really lessened the interest and impact for me. 

It also felt a bit dismissive of African independence & class struggles to a, lump them all together and b, speed run through them to everyone either selling out/fading into irrelevance.

If the moral of the parable is how humans turn away from each other's specificity and humanity you have to spend a bit more time turning towards those things I think, so we can feel the gravity of what is lost. 
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