“I never thought I'd read an African novel where one of the main African characters is afflicted with anorexia and bulimia. How could this happen in a society where thin is decidedly NOT in, and where a full figure is generally the standard of beauty? I well remember the ideal of the diongoma, for instance, in Senegal, and the riducule directed at the Miss Universe pageant in the local newspapers when it was held at a beach hotel in Cassamance. But that quibble aside, this is really an...”

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