{"id":5388,"date":"2014-09-01T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2014-09-04T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T11:35:32","slug":"so-the-path-does-not-die-by-pede-hollist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=5388","title":{"rendered":"So The Path Does Not Die by Pede Hollist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published by Jacaranda Books<a href=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/So-The-Path-Does-Not-Die-jacket1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5390\" title=\"So The Path Does Not Die jacket\" src=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/So-The-Path-Does-Not-Die-jacket1-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/So-The-Path-Does-Not-Die-jacket1-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/So-The-Path-Does-Not-Die-jacket1-723x1024.jpg 723w, http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/So-The-Path-Does-Not-Die-jacket1.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a> 28 August 2014 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>352pp, hbk, \u00a312.99<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed by Alison Burns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.abebooks.com\/c\/99367\/77798\/2029?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abebooks.com%2Fservlet%2FSearchResults%3Fan%3DPede%2BHollist%26bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26servlet%3DImpactRadiusAffiliateLinkEntry%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dso%2Bthe%2Bpath%2Bdoes%2Bnot%2Bdie\">Click here to buy this book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Finaba Marah could tell from the length of Baramusu\u2019s stride, her erect shoulders and granite stare, that her grandmother had come for serious business\u2026\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Female circumcision is the background theme of this warm-hearted story about a young woman from Sierra Leone who makes a new life for herself in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Diaspora novels deserve respectful attention.\u00a0 This one, addressing one of the most intimate and traumatic female topics, happens to be written by a man.\u00a0 Interestingly, the result is a story full of flawed men.\u00a0 Fina and the women she makes friends with along the way have their weaknesses, too.\u00a0 The resulting portrait is as truthful as a fairytale or a soap opera; full of argument and mistakes, disasters and good-luck stories, it teems also with food and money and sexiness.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, rather than be \u2018an occasional African\u2019, Fina goes home to a much-altered Freetown, in search of her grandmother.\u00a0 More comfortable there in her skin than she ever was in America, she adopts a female war-orphan and persuades her fun-loving Caribbean lover to join her.<\/p>\n<p>Less sophisticated, and less compelling, than some other contemporary novels about African life (notably those by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), <em>So The Path Does Not Die<\/em> captures well the rowdy ambiguities of modern African culture.<\/p>\n<p>Author Pede Hollist is an associate professor of English at the University of Tampa, Florida.\u00a0 His short story, \u2018Foreign Aid\u2019, was shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize.\u00a0 <em>So The Path Does Not Die <\/em>(first published in Cameroon in 2012) is his first novel.\u00a0 It is the African Literature Association\u2019s Book of the Year for 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Alison Burns<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Finaba Marah could tell from the length of Baramusu\u2019s stride, her erect shoulders and granite stare, that her grandmother had come for serious business\u2026\u2019<\/em><br \/>\nFemale circumcision is the background theme of this warm-hearted story about a young woman from Sierra Leone who makes a new life for herself in Washington, DC [&#8230;] in Reviews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-fiction-and-non-fiction","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}