My book post from a couple of months ago:
I love Baking Cakes in Kigali so much that I am reading the author's other book, When Hoopoes go to Heaven. A Hoopoe is a bird btw. It is set in Swaziland. If you like the Ladies #1 Detective Agency, you would like this author's books. Gaile Parkin is her name.
The main character is a 10 year old boy, Benedict, whose parents have died as a result of AIDS, a common problem in Swaziland, and he is now living with his grandparents (along with his brothers and sisters and cousins whose parents have also died from AIDs). The book is not about AIDs, but it does help one see what a huge impact this disease has had on the way of life in Africa, and that grandparents are left to raise not just one, but many children, and it is like a whole generation is just disappearing.
1/1/2013 So here's the update - her first book is not as good as Baking Cakes in Kigali
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