This was my first experience with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and I look forward to reading on of his novels. I enjoyed his writing style and how none of his characters were perfect. They were all flawed, all real. I also learned a lot about Kenya's transition to colonial independence, a subject I knew almost nothing about at the beginning of the collection. The Black Bird and Minutes of Glory were my two favorite stories. They were interesting and complex. Some of the stories were a little slow for my personal taste and I was disappointed when I got absorbed in a story and then it ended. I will try one of his novel sin the near future.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me an ARC of this collection in exchange for an honest review.