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    Book Review and Reflection of The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

    Published: 2015 Country: Zimbabwe Genre: Fiction Buy the book Here. Introduction The Book of Memory is one of those books you finish and keep wondering if it’s a true story, not just fiction. So many nuances and crevices sound too real to be made up. That is a testament to the author’s brilliant prose. Book Summary Memory has been sentenced to death for killing a white man. As she languishes behind bars, her lawyer asks her to write down everything she can remember about what happened. She decides to write her life story, both for her lawyer, who is trying to reduce her sentence to life imprisonment instead of death, and…