Téa Mutonji
Auteur de Shut Up You're Pretty
Œuvres de Téa Mutonji
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 69
- Popularité
- #250,752
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 4
These are a series of linked stories about the narrator Loli. She immigrated from the Democratic Republic of Congo with her mother and brother to join her father who had been living in Canada for a while. The stories range from the time the family moved into a housing project in Scarborough when she was maybe 10 or so until she is aged 30 or more. In almost all of the stories she is exploring her sexuality with many different partners. Sometimes she was with men, sometimes with women but never did she seem happy or settled or in love. She also has experimented with drugs and alcohol and maybe that's a problem but she never really says so. Her relationship with her mother is distant particularly after her father committed suicide. Loli blames it on her mother's ongoing depression but it seems to me that Loli is probably depressed too. To me, Lolo is as much of an unknown at the end of the book as she was at the beginning.
I probably wouldn't have even read this book if it wasn't picked as one of the 5 books for Canada Reads 2024. I certainly wouldn't have finished the book if I had just picked it up.… (plus d'informations)