![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins with colonial explorer Dr Livingstone looking for the source of the Nile in the wrong place. Set mostly in what is now Zambia and partially narrated by a chorus of malaria-carrying mosquitos(!), this is a confident, ambitious, and supremely intelligent book that explores class and race tensions, the development of revolutionary politics, and technology usurping nature while flitting between characters, eras, and genres seamlessly. Namwali Serpell’s impressive debut novel The Old Drift is a 563-page sprawling epic that follows the bloodlines of three interconnected families over the course of three generations. ![]()
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