*This book is for an adult audience.*
Twenty-eight-year-old Muriithi is an African zebu herdsman. As such, he lives life on a schedule. Water the zebu, feed the zebu, protect the zebu. These are big responsibilities yet simple tasks. He enjoys predictable things he can plan for: the dry season, the wet season, the birthing of calves, among other things.
He detests unpredictable events: leopard attacks, droughts, and disease. Unpredictable events make his job difficult, anxiety-provoking, and can even threaten the lives of his zebu.
As fate would have it, he has been burdened with caring for his grandfather, Mwangi. His dementia makes him the most unpredictable event in Africa. His mood, personality, ability to care for himself, and memory shift more than the dry wind. Muriithi can never plan for who Mwangi might be, often encountering a “new” Mwangi he has never met before.
Just as he cannot predict who Mwangi might be, he did not predict meeting a man, Limbani, who swears on his nomad ancestors that he can cause plagues of locusts. Adapting to the unpredictable events revolving around his zebu, Mwangi’s dementia, and the handsome Limbani prove to be overwhelming. What happens in the end, Muriithi could not predict.
Twenty-eight-year-old Muriithi is an African zebu herdsman. As such, he lives life on a schedule. Water the zebu, feed the zebu, protect the zebu. These are big responsibilities yet simple tasks. He enjoys predictable things he can plan for: the dry season, the wet season, the birthing of calves, among other things.
He detests unpredictable events: leopard attacks, droughts, and disease. Unpredictable events make his job difficult, anxiety-provoking, and can even threaten the lives of his zebu.
As fate would have it, he has been burdened with caring for his grandfather, Mwangi. His dementia makes him the most unpredictable event in Africa. His mood, personality, ability to care for himself, and memory shift more than the dry wind. Muriithi can never plan for who Mwangi might be, often encountering a “new” Mwangi he has never met before.
Just as he cannot predict who Mwangi might be, he did not predict meeting a man, Limbani, who swears on his nomad ancestors that he can cause plagues of locusts. Adapting to the unpredictable events revolving around his zebu, Mwangi’s dementia, and the handsome Limbani prove to be overwhelming. What happens in the end, Muriithi could not predict.