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Praise for Confession of the Lioness

Somber and masterfully wrought... Sings with the musical nuance of a poem

LA Times

Written in prose both aphoristic and lush, which suggests rural speech yet creates a far richer texture, Confession of the Lioness opens as an exploration of a crisis that has multiple roots yet reaches a den ...

Stephen Henighan, The Times Literary Supplement

A passionate denunciation of patriarchy and violence against women in an east African village... A radical call for change framed in a semitraditional form; a book of profound disenchantment written in language that ...

Hedley Twidle, Financial Times

Somber and masterfully wrought... Sings with the musical nuance of a poem

LA Times

Written in prose both aphoristic and lush, which suggests rural speech yet creates a far richer texture, Confession of the Lioness opens as an exploration of a crisis that has multiple roots yet reaches a den ...

Stephen Henighan, The Times Literary Supplement

A passionate denunciation of patriarchy and violence against women in an east African village... A radical call for change framed in a semitraditional form; a book of profound disenchantment written in language that ...

Hedley Twidle, Financial Times

Somber and masterfully wrought... Sings with the musical nuance of a poem

LA Times

Written in prose both aphoristic and lush, which suggests rural speech yet creates a far richer texture, Confession of the Lioness opens as an exploration of a crisis that has multiple roots yet reaches a den ...

Stephen Henighan, The Times Literary Supplement

A passionate denunciation of patriarchy and violence against women in an east African village... A radical call for change framed in a semitraditional form; a book of profound disenchantment written in language that ...

Hedley Twidle, Financial Times