Days Come and Go

Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon,Days Come and Gois the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi, Annas thoroughly European daughter (at least in her mothers eyes); and Tina, a teenager who comes under the sway of a militant terrorist faction, Boums epic is generous and all-seeing. Brilliantly considering the many issues that dominate her characters liveslove and politics, tradition and modernityDays Come and Go, inNchanji Njamnsis vivid translation,is a page-turner by way of Frantz Fanon and V. S. Naipaul. As passions rise, fall, and rise again,Boum's stirring English-language debut offers a discerning portrait of a nation that never once diminishes the power of everyday human connection.