With a novel that is inventive in scope, masterful in execution, she does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing.- Lesley Nneka Arimah, Guardian Magisterial.- The New York Review of Books One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told.- Marlon James This is a collection to savor in bits and bite-sized portions there are too many pungencies to swallow in one gulp.- New York Journal of BooksĪ soaring and sublime epic. Time after time, Makumbi succeeds in making the familiar strange, as well as the reverse. Readers will savor Makumbi's explorations of characters caught between Uganda and England and the cultural forces of immigration, making for a thoughtful, eloquent collection.- Publishers Weekly is the same as the argument for its more universal power: the way Makumbi can take two countries and still make their intersections feel like exactly the stories we all need.- Los Angeles Times
There is Uganda, and there is Britain, and then all the miles in between. Men behave badly in these stories, women suffer or negotiate for power, families bicker and try to cooperate. In an ambitious collection by the critically acclaimed author of Kintu, Let's Tell This Story Properly explores what happens to those who leave. As they try to find their place, they drift from a home that feels further and further away. Centered around the lives of Ugandans in Britain, Let's Tell This Story Properly features characters both hyper-visible and unseen-they take on jobs at airport security, care for the elderly, and work in hospitals, while remaining excluded from white, British life. How far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's collection attempt to measure that distance. There is Uganda, and there is Britain, and then all the miles in between.- Los Angeles Times
About the Book Stories of race, class, and the Ugandan immigrant experience in Britain by the author of Kintu and winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize.
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