Let's Tell This Story Properly
Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
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Publisher Description
Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.
Let's Tell This Story Properly is by Uganda’s Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Makumbi (Kintu) captures the struggles of economic uncertainty and assimilation for Ugandans in Britain across decades in this adept collection. In "Our Allies the Colonies," Abbey, an immigrant lured to England during WWII by army recruitment posters, fathers a son with a white woman who puts him up for adoption without informing Abbey. In "Manchester Happened," Nnambassa remembers her difficult immigration to Manchester and the arrival of her 14-year-old sister, Katassi, five years later in 1993. Katassi's teenage entitlement causes a painful estrangement that not even their father's terminal diagnosis decades later can bridge. In the title story, Nnam returns her dead husband's body to Uganda, only to learn he had continued to father children with the wife she thought he had abandoned. In "Love Made in Manchester," 15-year-old Masaaba shocks his British mom and Ugandan father by following through with his online boast about returning to Uganda to take part in the traditional circumcision ceremony. 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.
