Send Her Back and Other Stories

By Munashe Kaseke

Book Overview

In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of black women in the United States. Equally awash with the joys of exploring a new world as well as a myriad of challenges, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in vibrant, indelible settings. Yet again, these are not only stories of navigating an at times tense US political climate, they are also marked by characters who rise to the top of their professional fields, seize the American dream, and travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds, be it by stories of dating outside one's culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad.

Uncanny. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and other stories dazzles, leaving you newly awakened to the world we live in.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578323583
• ISBN13: 9780578323589
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Mukana Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking

These are some very thought provoking short stories, mostly about about women of Zimbabwean background that have emigrated to the United States. The author does not hold back her punches when telling these stories and taking on themes such as scholarship woes, multiple jobs, white peoples’ attitude towards “outsiders”, misogynistic thinking and though they vary between told in third person, second, or first person narrative, they link together very well. Sometimes the themes were the same though, and after being reiterated several times, it got a little stagnant. I don't usually read books of short stories but it sure was interesting to read this one, especially since the viewpoints were different than what I have experienced. Eye opening for sure! The only thing I might add would be a glossary for some of the phrases in this book. I could guess some of the meanings but was totally lost other times.