"Namwali Serpell's vibrant, intellectually rich debut novel, The Old Drift, is in keeping in that tradition, and like any good nation-hoovering novel, it too refuses to conform to expectations. In a nod to Leo Tolstoy, she eventually offers her readers a lovely kernel of an overarching theme that binds her characters across the passage of time and encapsulates her confident writing style: 'Every family is a war but some are more civil than others.'" - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Her Zambian characters are especially brimming and compelling. It is in the familial space with its dramas of loves, betrayals, desires and dreams that excels. "In a novel that spans the breadth of Zambia's precolonial past to its digital future, Serpell's unbound imagination is often a thing of beauty.
A striking debut." - USA Today (5 Books Not to Miss)
"A rich, thick Zambian epic, The Old Drift blends real-life history with magical realism.
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