Tracking the Scent of My Mother
June 16th, 2008 | Published in Books | 8 Comments
Tracking the Scent of My Mother
Author: Muthoni Garland
ISBN: 99667245-0-8
Date of Publication: August 2007
Published by Storymoja
“Afterwards, I’d climb the steepest part of the bank and clamber onto the rickety plank-and-rope bridge. Planting my bare buttocks on the planks, I’d grip the rope with my hands, dangle my feet over the edge and dry in the sweet morning sun It was on this very same plank-and-rope bridge, two years later, that I pushed my half-sister Faith into Ragati’s rushing waters. It was not my fault that she had never learnt to swim.”
