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This week was something I am always struggling with. Yes! My hair! Sigh...But these are great covers with great hair.
And you know me...I will make this a diverse list of books (as much as I can). Click on the book titles below to go to their Amazon page.
~ Hair ~
1. Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
2. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
3. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
4. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
The Hairdresser of Harare
by Tendai Huncbu
Like very good dark chocolate this is a delicious novel, with a
bitter-sweet flavour. Vimbai is a hairdresser, the best in Mrs Khumalo's
salon, and she knows she is the queen on whom they all depend. Her
situation is reversed when the good-looking, smooth-talking Dumisani
joins them. However, his charm and desire to please slowly erode
Vimbai's rancour and when he needs somewhere to live, Vimbai becomes his
landlady. So, when Dumisani needs someone to accompany him to his
brother's wedding to help smooth over a family upset, Vimbai obliges.
Startled to find that this smart hairdresser is the scion of one of the
wealthiest families in Harare, she is equally surprised by the warmth of
their welcome; and it is their subsequent generosity which appears to
foster the relationship between the two young people. The ambiguity of
this deepening friendship - used or embraced by Dumisani and Vimbai with
different futures in mind - collapses in unexpected brutality when
secrets and jealousies are exposed. Written with delightful humour and a
penetrating eye, The Hairdresser of Harare is a novel that you will
find hard to put down.
What are some covers you have seen with great hair on them?
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