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Josh Caporale
I am flirting with giving this either 3 or 3.5 stars. I use a 0-10 scale, so the number of stars used on the 1-5 scale are doubled. I would also specify if a book gets no stars or half a star.

As for A Grain of Wheat, I feel that I should have started with another Ngugi wa Thiong'o novel after reading about the overview of what they were about. This novel primarily follows the influence Mugo has on a Kenyan society that is doing their best to obtain independence from Britain. In addition, the nov
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