WINNER OF THE NEW WELSH WRITING AWARDS 2016.

For Sarah's family, memories of early Sixties Aba in south-eastern Nigeria are scorched onto their hearts. As people of that time and place are scattered like bleached bones, Aba acts as centripetal force on their imagination. In twenty closely linked stories, Bushmeat explores an expatriate family's two year stay in
1960's Nigeria then moves on to explore its effect on all their lives over the next fifty years. Exploring themes of substitution, racism, and whether the spirit can ever survive transaction.


About the Author
Mandy Sutter went to school in Nigeria and Bromley but now lives in Yorkshire. She has co-written two non-fiction books about Somali women. Her first novel, Stretching It, was published in 2013; her third poetry pamphlet, Old Blue Car, in 2015. This novel's first chapter, 'Bush Meat', won first prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards in 2016.

Reviews
'Atmospheric, wonderfully unexpected, disquieting, touching and darkly humorous.' Alison Moore

'We discern, in a microcosm, what has happened and is happening in macrocosm in much of the developing world.' Penelope Shuttle

'Triumphs, in its lean prose and true dialogue... disarming humour & evocation of a family divided by sexism & racism. Stitches together threads of memory to create a moving tapestry of lost life, building bridges of understanding across time and place, enhancing literature's ever-changing, ever-supple genre.' Rory MacLean



Book Information
ISBN 9781917140126
Author Mandy Sutter
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books