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1. The book of memory

Author:

Gappah, Petina, 1971-

Average Rating:

4 stars

East Regional - Adult Fiction

GAPPAH

Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction

GAPPAH

Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction has 2

GAPPAH

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Physical Desc.	Availability
2016	First American edition	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	276 pages ; 22 cm	On Shelf East Regional - Adult Fiction GAPPAH Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction GAPPAH Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction has 2 GAPPAH	More Info

Description:

"Memory, the narrator of [this novel], is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted...