Tropical Fish

In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for Christine Mugisha and her family after Idi Amin s dictatorship.Three of the eight chapters are told from the point of view of Christine s two older sisters, Patti, a born again Christian who finds herself starving at her boarding school, and Rosa, a free spirit who tries to magically seduce one of her teachers But the star of Tropical Fish is Christine, whom we accompany from her first wobbly steps in high heels, to her encounters with the first world conveniences and alienation of America, to her return home to Uganda.As the Mugishas cope with Uganda s collapsing infrastructure, they also contend with the universal themes of family cohesion, sex and relationships, disease, betrayal, and spirituality Anyone dipping into Baingana s incandescent, widely acclaimed novel will enjoy their immersion in the world of this talented newcomer Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in the Africa region Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs AWP Award Series in Short Fiction Winner of the Washington Writing Prize for Short Fiction Finalist for the Caine Prize in African Writing Best Download Tropical Fish Author Doreen Baingana For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I wish I read Doreen s book back in high school Tropical Fish is an easy and entertaining read which encompasses beautifully told memories and a true reflection of the life of a young Ugandan girl in the lower middle class society of the country Reading it fe...This is a collection of eight short stories about the lives of three sisters as girls and young women growing up in Uganda It s not an awareness novel the stories are about relationships and the characters inner lives, not Africa issues, though one does deal with AIDS through a very personal lens This was the most remarkable story in the collection to me, withintense emotions than are found in the others Overall, the writing is adequate, but I did not find this collection particu This is a collection of eight short stories about the lives of three sisters as girls and young women growing up in Uganda It s not an awareness novel the stories are about relationships and the characters inner lives, not Africa issues, though one does deal with AIDS through a very persona...I d read Tropical Fish before, but I had forgotten just how brilliant Doreen is I am forcing myself to choose only two stories for my packet, but I can t begin to choose I love me some coming of age stories and her young narrators are aces I know I ll end up using one of the epistolary stories because writing a letter that seems like a letter, but still tells a story is a complicated maneuver which Doreen pulls off not once, but twice in the collection.So, here are the stories I am thinking I d read Tropical Fish before, but I had f...While categorized as a set of short stories, this title readsas set than individual stories as the same characters of three sisters reappear throughout all the stories The technique of different voices and a variety of media such as a journal and a letter helps separate the voices to an extent but in many cases it is confusing as to who is speaking, perhaps suggesting that each sister is not as separate as one would assume and is instead different possible trajectories of one generic fema While categorized as a set of short stories, this title readsas set than individual stories as the same characters of three sisters reappear throughout all the stories The technique of different voices and a variety of media such as a journal and a ...While this book is called a set of short stories with interconnected characters, it reads best as a whole The book tells the stories of three sisters, focusing mostly on Christine with a couple of stories from Rosa and Patti The writing is immensely powerful and the stories are extremely compelling In particular, the stories tracing Christine s time working in the United States in Los Angeles and Washington, DC before returning to Uganda tell the story of identity, race, politics, diaspora, While this book is...I m so glad I ve discovered this book here on GR it didn t sound so very special, but as I have a personal interest in Uganda, I d decided to read it, anyway, just for the cultural information and I got so muchDoreen Baingana is a unique voice, very deft at describing complex emotions and relationships, down to earth, very sincere, sometimes heart breaking I hope she s going to tackle a novel or another set of connected short stories Especially, the letter of Rosa to the lover who m I m so glad I ve discovered this book ...Again, a book for class I m not usually big on vignettes which is what this novel is, but these vignettes are very much connected They focus around three sisters growing up in a village in Uganda and their coming of age The ideas revolving around religion, culture, education, discrimination...Few authors can capture multiple themes and weave them so effortlessly.A novel in stories of 3 sisters in Uganda A Thank You Note my vote for best sotry of the book gives the true feeling of the AIDS crisis of the 80 s in Africa that I have ever read.

• English
• 10 November 2018
Doreen Baingana
• Paperback
• 184 pages
• 0767925106
• Doreen Baingana
• Tropical Fish