Patchwork /
Banda-Aaku, Ellen.
Patchwork / Ellen Banda-Aaku. - Johannesburg : Penguin Books, 2011. - viii, 216 p. ; 20 cm. - Penguin African writers . - Penguin African writers. .
"Lusaka. 1978. Pumpkin is nine years old. Her fashionable mother is the queen of Tudu Court, but underneath the veneer of respectability that her father's money provides lies a secret that threatens their whole world - the tall, elegant Totela Ponga is a drunk. ... Weaving together the stories of three generations of women, this novel is a patchwork of love, jealousy and human frailty set against a background of war and political ambition."--Back cover.
9780143527534 0143527533
Families--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Women alcoholics--Fiction.
PR9369.4.B35 / P38 2011
823.92
Patchwork / Ellen Banda-Aaku. - Johannesburg : Penguin Books, 2011. - viii, 216 p. ; 20 cm. - Penguin African writers . - Penguin African writers. .
"Lusaka. 1978. Pumpkin is nine years old. Her fashionable mother is the queen of Tudu Court, but underneath the veneer of respectability that her father's money provides lies a secret that threatens their whole world - the tall, elegant Totela Ponga is a drunk. ... Weaving together the stories of three generations of women, this novel is a patchwork of love, jealousy and human frailty set against a background of war and political ambition."--Back cover.
9780143527534 0143527533
Families--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Women alcoholics--Fiction.
PR9369.4.B35 / P38 2011
823.92