![]() She teaches literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Serpell is a Zambian writer she was born in that country and moved to the United States with her family when she was nine. It is filled with love stories, greedy sex (“my heart twerks for you,” one character comments), pot smoke, comedy, inopportune menstruation, car crashes, tennis, and the scorching pleasure and pain of long hours in hair salons. Serpell seems to want to stuff the entire world into her novel - biology, race, subjugation, revolutionary politics, technology - but it retains a human scale. It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle. ![]() This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade. The reader who picks up “The Old Drift” is likely to be more than simply impressed. ![]() Serpell’s mosquitoes observe the dozens of wriggling humans in this novel, and they are distinctly unimpressed. ![]()
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