One Day I Will Write about This Place

"A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. suffused by a love affair with language. "-Publishers Weekly. , Top Ten Books of 2011. In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. In One Day I Will Write About This Place. , named a 2011 New York Times. notable book, Wainaina brilliantly evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in joyous, ecstatic language.