Kathryn's Reviews > The Fall of Saints

This novel is by a Kenyan writer, and is her first book; I found the book to be very good, and one that I did not want to put down.

Mugure, born in Kenya and a graduate of CCNY, has an absent father (who did pay for her schooling); her mother, who was a single mother rejected by her family, is deceased, having died sometime after her daughter went to America. While working at a law office in Manhattan, Mugure meets and falls in love with Zach, whose father was Estonian and whose mother is Italian-American. They marry, and are unable to have a child of their own, so they adopt a two-year-old racially mixed boy born by a native of Kenya. All is good in Mugure’s world until the year Kofi turns five; at that point Mugure starts wondering about the adoption procedure that brought her adoptive son to her, and finding out that things are murkier than they seem. The story takes us from Manhattan to Middle America to Africa, where, with the help of friends that she can depend on, she find out what is really going on with her husband and his friends, male and female.

This is a good book, and the main character is a strong woman; I may have to look for more books by this author.