Patchwork – Ellen Banda-Aaku Fabrieksprijs

“Lusaka. 1978. Pumpkin is nine years old. Her fashionable mother is the queen of Tudu Court, but underneath the veneer of respectability that her father’s money provides lies a secret that threatens their whole world – the tall, elegant Totela Ponga is a drunk. And when Pumpkin’s father–the wealthy businessman JS–discovers her mother’s alcoholism it sent in motion a chain of events that come to define the rest of her life. Weaving together the stories of three generations of women, this novel is a patchwo…