Description
President Obama’s impending arrival to Nairobi is the
electric backdrop to this dazzling debut, Truth is a
Flightless Bird (TIFB). Yet, beneath the glittering
celebrations, beats the pulse of a city aflame.
It is into this crucible that Nice (real name Theresa)
lands, fleeing her Somali drug-dealer boyfriend, her
brutal UN work in Mogadishu, and the life choices
stalking her. So desperate is she to flee that she
involves one of her oldest friends, Duncan, an
American pastor heading a church in Nairobi. On the
way back from the airport, their car crashes, and Nice
is abducted by a crooked immigration cop, Hinga.
Duncan awakes after the car crash to find himself
captive to the sociopathic Hinga, and the charmingly
amoral Ciru. Plucked from his middle class bubble,
Duncan must plunge into the moral complexities of the
under-city to rescue Nice. But how deep can Duncan
go, without destroying his faith, and himself?
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