I have a lot of thoughts about this book because I found it both enchanting and frustrating. Let’s start with the plot:  We’re somewhere in Africa.  The Nuru, a lighter skinned people, and the Okeke, a darker skinned people, are enemies.  The Nuru are on course to exterminate the Okeke, following (what they think is) the guidance written in The Great Book.  One Okeke woman is raped by a really terrible Nuru during a raping/pillaging raid.  She escapes, giving birth in the desert to a baby girl whom she […]