A Country You Can Leave

This is listed as a coming of age story but I found it to be mostly an exploration of the relationship between the mother and the child and of life as a neglected child. I liked that Angel-Ajani resisted the tendency to over-dramatize the feelings associated with neglect that too often make such narratives cringe inducing, but it also made the reading experience a little hard to approach.

Not the easiest read but one that asks you to sit with it and contemplate its study in nuance.