Pre-Owned The Book of Memory (Hardcover) by Petina Gappah

from lit_chick

"I am writing to keep myself alive. But I am also laying out the threads that have pulled my life together, to see just where this one connects with that one or crosses with the other, to see how they form the tapestry from which I will stand back to get a better view." (87) Memory, the narrator ...

from Beamis12

3.5 Interesting premise for this well written book. Memory is an albino black, convicted of the murder of the white man who raised her. Given the death sentence she waits, incarcerated in the maximum security prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is our narrator and this is her story. This is not a qui...

from starbox

Narrated by Memory, a young black Zimbabwean woman, in jail for the murder of her white adopttve father. She is writing down her life story for her lawyer's planned appeal - a Book of Memory indeed- and takes us through her life, darting back and forth from the grim daily prison routine to recoll...

from vancouverdeb

The Book of Memory is narrated by Memory herself. As the story opens, Memory is imprisoned in a maximum security prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. She has been charged with murder and awaits the possibility of the death penalty. An American journalist , as well as her lawyer , encourage Memory to write...

from literogo

Memory, an albino Zimbabwean woman, is the only female prisoner on death row in the notorious Chikurubi prison in Harare. The law of Zimbabwe restricts her to a single appeal for a change of her sentence, to save her own life. She is accused of murdering a white man, to whom she was sold as a chi...