Dust

A family’s grief becomes the mirror of a nation’s unspoken wounds.

When Odidi Oganda is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his death sends ripples through his family and a country haunted by unspoken wounds. His sister, Ajany, returns home to the barren northern lands of Kenya, where grief collides with memory, and long-buried secrets rise like dust in the wind. Through landscapes of arid beauty and the fragile tenderness of human ties, the Oganda family’s story intertwines with Kenya’s turbulent history of betrayal, violence, and resilience.

Owuor’s prose is both searing and tender, weaving the intimate with the national. Each chapter drifts between past and present, drawing out the ways personal tragedy is braided into the soil of a nation struggling with its identity. The novel is not just about mourning a brother, but about confronting silence, shame, and the ghosts of history that hover over every generation.

Dust is at once a requiem and a hymn; a novel of exile and return, of wounds that refuse to heal, and of beauty found amid devastation. It is a story of family, memory, and a homeland scarred yet enduring, sung in a language as fierce as it is fragile.

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