Tumelo Moleleki’s Reviews > Petit pays > Status Update

I liked chapter 23, where Gaby discovers reading. I think this is the only part of this book that I enjoyed. I was on tenterhooks the whole time because of the language and the nature of the company this child kept. I disliked everything about what was happening and the parts about the political climate just add to the discomfort.

As Mokoena, reading about people eating crocodile is an abomination.

Kids can be so disgusting!

These kids are getting up to every conceivable mischief. I get the fear Gabriel has to show any interest in his Rwandan identity although I believe his father is actually not the one he should fear reprisal from. His mother is the one refusing him that identity. Asserting that he is a Rwandan might also seem like a rejection of his European side and that might hurt his father, but not make him angry at him me thinks