Tropical Fish – Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana - first published 2005
This was the only novel set in Uganda that I could find that wasn’t about Idi Amin’s reign of terror. The story is about a middle class family living in Entebbe in Uganda in the years after the end of the Idi Amin regime. The chapters are narrated by the 3 daughters of the family: Rosa, Patti and Christine but most of them are narrated by Christine. Rosa dies of AIDS and Christine eventually moves to Los Angeles. There is enough detail in the book to be able to imagine what life was like for the family but not so much that the voices of the 3 women are swamped. 6/10
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