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We Need New Names

by NoViolet Bulawayo

Narrator Robin Miles

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Language English

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Summary
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Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.

Fiction

NoViolet's story 'Hitting Budapest,' won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. NoViolet's other work has been shortlisted for the 2009 SA PEN Studzinsi Award, and has appeared in Callaloo, The Boston Review, Newsweek, and The Warwick Review, as well as in anthologies in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University, where her work has been recognized with a Truman Capote Fellowship. NoViolet was born and raised in Zimbabwe.

Robin Miles is a veteran of Broadway, classical plays, television, film, and audiobooks. An AudioFile Golden Voice, she has won numerous Earphones Awards, ALA Awards, and Audie Award nominations.