Ruth V Akumbu

Letters from Home: for Papa Ruth V Akumbu

This is a story about love, about relationships, about family and about commitment to that family, harnessed from the founts of memory; a memory fuelled essentially by letters. Here, epistles become avenues to reveal characters, their relationships with each other, setting, tone and mood. The letters equally serve as vehicles for conveying important life lessons from a biblical perspective. In this first novel, written in a simple but profoundly emotional voice, Ruth Akumbu invites us, through her own experience, to rethink our positions with regard to our relationships, at a time when humanity is on an increasingly individualistic turn in a more and more materialistic world. Eunice Ngongkum Writer and critic