The Fall of Saints
In this stunning debut novel, a Kenyan expat is living the American Dream until she uncovers her husband s secrets and opens a Pandora s box of good versus evil.In this stunning debut novel, a Kenyan expat living the American dream with her husband and adopted son soon finds it marred by child trafficking, scandal, and a problematic past Mugure and Zack seem to have the picture perfect family a young, healthy son, a beautiful home in Riverdale, New York, and a bright future But one night, as Mugure is rummaging through an old drawer, she comes across a piece of paper with a note scrawled on it a note that calls into question everything she s ever believed about her husband A wandering curiosity may have gotten the best of Mugure this time as she heads down a dan gerous road that takes her back to Kenya, where new discoveries threaten to undo her idyllic life She wonders if she ever really knew the man she married and begins to piece together the signs that were there since the beginning Who was that suspicious man who trailed Zack and Mugure on their first date at a New York nightclub What about the closing of the agency that facilitated the adoption of their son The Fall of Saints tackles real life political and ethical issues through a striking, beautifully rendered story This extraordinary novel will tug at your heart and keep it racing until the end. Best Read [ The Fall of Saints ] Author [ Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ ] – kino-fada.fr I should have run for the hills looking at the ratings on GR, but I didn t check it before requesting this turkey on NetGalley More fool me I agree with the other reviewers, this book makes no sense I mean,1 The mystery in the book starts when a bored suburban housewife gets tired of shopping, pokes around in her husband s pant pockets, finds a paper piece with a number and her adopted son s name on it She screams conspiracy It gets worse, this trouser pocket paper thing Next she finds I should have run for the hills looking at the ratings on GR, but I didn t check it before requesting this turkey on NetGalley More fool me I agree with the other reviewers, this book makes no sense I mean,1 The mystery in the book starts when a bored suburban housewife gets tired of shopping, pokes around in her husband s pant pockets, finds a paper piece with a number and her adopted son s name on it She screams conspiracy It gets worse, this trouser pocket paper thing Next she finds a paper with a man s name crossed out, and this intelligent person thinks that proves that her ...The subject matter is substantial in this novel The author tells how babies are trafficked in Kenya by way of women signing away their uteruses The women are held in a life of slavery of artificial insemination and fear Human trafficking and slavery in order to supply the demand of adoptable babies and muchsinister activity is the theme.The progression of the novel and the way it evolved had me scratching my head The protagonist is a Kenyan citizen who marries a first generation Estoni The subject matter is substantial in this novel The author tells how babies are trafficked in Kenya by way of women signing away their uteruse...The Fall of Saints by Wanjiku wa NgugiRead 18th March 2014 When I requested this book I had no expectations except that it would be fiction I liked the blurb.It turned out to be a mystery novel The book started well, though I thought the characters were not convincing enough Mughue was lovely but did not portray herself as a beautiful woman Certainly, Zach her husband was too perfect Friends they encountered were all too celluloid and unbelievable So here is the plot beautiful African w The Fall of Saints by Wanjiku wa NgugiRead 18th March 2014 When I requested this book I had no expectations except that it would be fiction I liked the blurb.It turned out to be a mystery novel The book started well, though I thought the characters were not convincing enough Mughue was lovely but did not portray herself as a beautiful woma...This is just a bad book I thought I d switch back to fiction after reading a few non fiction books This was next in my queue and thought I d try it out Sadly, I was very disappointed Mugure is a Kenyan woman married to a first generation immigrant She and Zack are married and want to have a child But she can t So they choose to adopt a child, named Kobi However, Mugure discovers there s a lotto her son s adoption than just the adoption What had a great premise child trafficking, This is just a bad book I thought I d switch back to fiction after reading a few non fiction books This was next in my queue and thought I d try it out Sadly, I was very disappointed Mugure is a Kenyan woman married to a first generation immigrant She and Zack are married and want to have a child But she can t So they choose to adopt a child, named Kobi However, Mugure discovers there s a lotto her son s adoption than just the...To be honest, I don t really understand how this book came to be published, it s so bad The synopsis makes it sound very interesting, dealing as it does with human and child trafficking and the enslavement of women in Africa, but the book is so poorly executed that it s hard to take seriously A thriller set in the US and Africa it s the story of a young Kenyan woman living in America with her husband and adopted son Seeming to be living the American dream, her comfortable life comes to an end To be honest, I don t really understand how this book came to be published, it s so bad The synopsis makes it sound very interesting, dealing as it does with human and child trafficking and the enslavement of women in Africa, but the ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I will give the author credit, the book ended up a lot tidier than I thought possible There were so many loose ends and different possible plots at the beginging, I was not sure it would all get cleraed within three hundred pages That being said, I really did not like this novel It was poorly written which, I fe...A thriller with an interesting concept that falls victim to lackluster execution.A good mystery, like a good magician, does its tricks in full view of the audience An astute reader should be able to solve it before the characters do There s a red herring, there s subverting expectations, and then there s outright cheating your reader There are too many times in this book when the characters figure something out using information that was withheld from us, or a plot twist is so contrived that A thriller with an interesting concept that falls victim to lackluster execution.A good mystery, like a good magician, does its tricks in full view of the audience An astute reader should be able to s...Some of the early reviews of the Fall of Saints by Wanjik wa Ng g noted the serious issues it brings to light the International exploitation and trafficking of the products of women s bodies from poor regions of the world to service the bourgeois life styles abroad, but reacted with impatience at the apparent naivety of the main character in the opening pages of the novel, this clouding their judgement about the literary and aesthetic qualities of the novel They completely missed the dram Some of the early reviews of the Fall of Saints by Wanjik wa Ng g noted the serious issues it brings to light the International exploitation and trafficking of the products of women s bodies from poor regions of the world to service the bourgeois life styles abroa...his debut novel started out so strong and hooked me quickly, but then slowly became confusing and outlandish as well.Mugure is an expat from Kenya now living in the US She has a nice life living in New York and is married to Zack, a successful attorney that she met while working at his law firm When the couple is unable to conceive a...Wanjiku Wa Ngugi s debut novel entices the reader with an interesting premise that has the potential to be different, and yet remain in the comfort zone of the don t trust your spouse sub genre that has dominated 2013 2014 In reality however, it falls a little short As an expat myself, I am always interested in stories told from the point of view of a person who is not on home turf That element, added to the fact that it had potential to explore modern African culture, is what initially att Wanjiku Wa Ngugi s debut novel entices the reader with an in...
- 02 April 2017 Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ
- Hardcover
- 288 pages
- 1476714916
- Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ
- The Fall of Saints