text: Alright, so her childhood was a bit different than your average white middle-income childhood. 
  
  Should this motivate anybody to write a completely non-imaginative, devoid of any insights book? 
  
  Don't be fooled by the exotic side of it. A poor writer can ruin a story, regardless of the exotic locale. 
  
  If you were expecting to find an "international" jewel like Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake" or Zadie Smith's "On Beauty", you will be greatly disappointed. 
  
  If you are into Africa, read something that has more than the exotic place to say for itself. Ben Okri's "The Famished Road"  (booker prize winner) or The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Paperback) 
  by Amos Tutuola  will be much better choices.
  