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Refusing Comfortable Resolutions: Sefi Atta's A Bit of Difference

Verity La October 23, 2012 Through the Looking Glass: Reviews

Review by Robyn Cadwallader Sefi Atta’s third novel, A Bit of Difference, begins with a deceptively simple scene: a woman arrives at Atlanta airport, Georgia, USA, and notices a huge …

Canjeera (Deb Wain)February 9, 2018
The house is early-morning quiet when Khadro wakes. Light leaks into the room; the moon glows through the poorly curtained window. Nightmares of her past have followed her across borders, ... Read More
Bloom (Les Wicks)May 31, 2019
Suburbs now have their community gardens. Husbands buried there turn the pages of books abandoned because the heroine fretted too much to actually do anything. This ambition to compost sees ... Read More
Portrait of a Departed Lady (Amanda Anastasi)April 10, 2018
Funeral plans: a wall crypt underneath her mother’s; pink roses on the pew ends. A house-size increase upon the exodus of children, husband, friends, dissention. Her disdain for the coverings ... Read More