One Day I Will Write About This Place

By: Binyavanga Wainana
Reviewed by Georgia Black
in September 2023

A compelling and often hilarious coming-of-age memoir about growing up as an outsider in middle-class Kenya, and becoming a writer.

“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.” – Binyavanga Wainaina, One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir

Published: 2012
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781847083326

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