68. Tropical Fish by Doreen Baingana
Title: Tropical Fish Author: Doreen Baingana Genre: Linked Short Stories Publishers: Cassava Republic Pages: 156 Year of Publication: 2005 (this edition 3008) Country: Uganda For the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa Region Winners (First Best Book) and Africa Reading Challenge Tropical Fish is a collection of eight linked short stories about three sisters - Patti, Rosa, and Christine - as they journey through life in the town of Enttebe, Uganda. With the exception of Lost in Los Angeles , all eight stories are set in Uganda and they all deal with the choices they made and where it led them. Even though the story was set in the period after Idi Amin's misrule and the deterioration that was imposing itself on the country, politics was never the object, except in some places where references are made to it such as when an ex all-European school was left to deteriorate and the Seventy-two hours ultimatum given to the Indians in Uganda to leave. However, HI...