The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor — thehungryreader.wordpress.com

Title: The Dragonfly Sea Author: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 978-0451494047 Genre: Coming of Age, Literary Fiction Pages: 512 Source: Publisher Rating: 5 stars Books that manage to capture place, time, person, and at the same time keep the prose intact and tight are rare to come about. The Dragonfly Sea is one of them. It scores very high on each of these parameters and then some more. When I say more, I mean what the reader feels for the characters, which to me is primary. The Dragonfly Sea is the kind of book that will keep you enthralled, and make you wonder about the Kenyan landscape – but more than anything else it will leave you wanting more of Owuor’s writing.

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