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“We Need New Names” is NoViolet Bulawayo’s 2013 debut novel about a young impoverished African girl who eventually moves to the American Midwest to live with an aunt and experiences culture shock. In which country does the first part of the book take place? (Hint: It shares borders with both South Africa and Botswana.)
- A Eritrea
- B Chad
- C Zambia
- D Zimbabwe
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From Uzodinma Iweala’s 2013 review for the Book Review:
Bulawayo’s portrayal of Zimbabwe is notable not for its descriptions of Paradise and Budapest but for those of Darling’s interior landscape — when, for example, she compares camera-toting NGO workers snapping pictures of her friends to paparazzi harassing Paris Hilton, or when she observes that in Zimbabwe you need to be a grandfather to be president, unlike America’s youthful Obama. Sometimes Darling is afraid of her world, which can be both disgusting and beguiling, but she is sure of her place in it.
